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Some divisions of the Seventh found sore spots of their own. At Aschaffenburg, cleaning up behind a U.S. Third Army thrust, the 45th Infantry suffered heavy casualties in a week-long battle...
...45th fought in the searing heat of burning buildings. Finally U.S. airmen went to work in earnest, bombed Aschaffenburg until there was nothing left to bomb or shell. Then Nazi von Lambert did what he had killed others for suggesting: he came out with a white flag...
Taking a third period pass, Montreal's swarthy Rocket powered his 175 Ibs. in on Goalie McCool of the Toronto Maple Leafs, let fly a shot that rang up his 45th goal of the season. For six minutes 13,961 Montreal hockey bugs whistled, applauded, cluttered the ice with paper. Richard's shot snapped a 27-year-old record, and he still had eight games to go. (Those eight games might bring the league-leading Canadiens-won 33, tied 4, lost 5-a record, too; they need six victories to beat their own 1943-44 mark...
...Army and the U.S. home front have been quick to appreciate Mauldin's veracity. First the 45th Division News, then the Army Times, the Stars & Stripes and the Yank printed his cartoons. He became a G.I. favorite overnight. When Ernie Pyle called Mauldin the finest cartoonist produced by the war, United Feature's George Carlin promptly signed him to a long-term contract. His saturnine "Up Front with Mauldin" is now syndicated to over 100 U.S. civilian newspapers...
Sergeant Mauldin has been at the front in Sicily and Italy. His battle-weary "Joe," confusedly making the best of his hard, humorless life, began as a diversion for Mauldin's 45th Division, quickly spread to the North African edition of Stars & Stripes...