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...issue under Religion carried a reference to a U.S. Army chaplain who, finding the little Waldensian congregation in Cerignola without a pastor, took charge of it and "for a whole year exercised in that place a brotherly ministry. . . ." The man referred to was Chaplain Martin H. Scharlemann of the 43rd Air Service Group, which had its HQ in that town, and of which the undersigned was the historian...
Died. Major General Leonard F. Wing, 52, rufous-polled, ruddy leader of the 43rd Division from New Guinea to Manila: after a heart attack; in Rutland, Vt. He was so popular that his men nicknamed their division the "Red Wing," promised to elect him U.S. Senator any time he chose...
...37th trained in the heat of the deep South and practiced jungle combat in the Fiji Islands. In the summer of 1943 it landed on New Georgia for its baptism of fire. There the 43rd Division had been fighting a grisly campaign to seize Munda airfield. Men lived in foxholes where infiltrating Japanese sometimes found them and fought them with knives and bare hands...
...August before the 37th and the 43rd (New England National Guard) could report the airfield secured...
Laboratoiy workers consider the hamster's laboratory qualifications practically ideal: it is even more susceptible to human diseases than the guinea pig. The gestation period is the shortest known for a mammal-15 days, 21 hours. It begins to mate by its 43rd day, bears its first litter at the age of two months. Thereafter, until the age of one year, when it stops bearing, it can deliver a litter of two to 15 young every month...