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...land the 1st Division, which had been warned that U.S. planes were expected, mostly held its fire. But antiaircraft gunners (as well as soldiers with rifles) of the 45th-which had not been warned-joined in the firing. More U. S. planes fell to pieces or burst into flames. Many blood-soaked parachutists tried to jump; some made...
From Piper Cub liaison planes into the shell-pocked snows of the Apennines fell bundles of food and ammunition-and news. The Army's oldest divisional newspaper was still on the job, and the most remote patrols of the Italian front got their copies. The 45th Division News had cranked out a special four-color holiday edition...
...News Senfinel, Albuquerque Tribune, Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman). Born in September 1940, as the "first [Army] paper of the national emergency," the News has gone along with its outfit through half a dozen U.S. camps and into Mediterranean battles. It has also done a notable job of covering the 45th in combat...
...Bike. Robinson's men can do a swift and objective job of reporting. When the 45th first went into action in Sicily, its News .staff went along. Mauldin cycled to beachhead ships to fetch news from their radios and personal experiences of the men. Result: first Allied invasion edition in Sicily, a hand-pressed single sheet. Moving up, the News soon had another extra, delivered by ration box. The headline: "Benito Finite...
...company, duly recorded that its files contained but a few clippings on him, which had duly been filed under the name of Charles Erwin Wilson, then executive vice president of General Motors.* Charlie Wilson was known to almost no one except G.E. men. In his presidential office on the 45th floor of Manhattan's G.E. building, he had a sunlamp which he turned on whenever he felt a sneeze coming on; a framed copy of Edgar A. Guest's It Couldn't Be Done ("and he did it"); a television set. He took a plaster bust...