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LeRoy J. Petrillo, son of the A.F. of L.'s contentious little Music Czar James C. Petrillo, sat in a 6th Armored Division tank in France, recalled his peacetime job as music librarian at Chicago's radio station WCFL, pondered the postwar world. Said G.I. Petrillo: ". . . I don't ever again want to fight anybody. I'll leave the fighting to poppa...
After the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898, Krueger and his fellow high-school students went over to Fort Thomas, Ky. to watch the 6th Infantry drill. The military bug bit them. On June 17, Walter Krueger enlisted; he reached Santiago, Cuba a few weeks after the Battle of San Juan Hill. Mustered out of the volunteers in February 1899, he still was not dedicated to the military life. By now he wanted to be a civil engineer. But many of his comrades were re-enlisting for service in the Philippines. After four months, Krueger was back...
...Montgomery had deployed the British Second Army on the First Army's right flank. It was disclosed that British armor had participated in the battle of Celles which decapitated the Nazi bulge short of the Meuse (TIME, Jan. 8). On the salient's western edge, the British 6th Airborne was now locked in seesaw battle...
Harding was relieved. MacArthur sent Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger to take command of all the Buna forces, which included the 41st Infantry Division-as green as the 32nd-and units of the 6th and 7th Australians. MacArthur's instructions to Eichelberger: don't come back until Buna is taken. Brigadier General Albert Whitney Waldron, put in command of the 32nd, was wounded. Brigadier General Clovis Byers succeeded him and he was wounded. Buna finally fell...
...defenders of Delme Ridge were well prepared for a frontal assault. Instead of that, Patton sent his 4th and 6th Armored Divisions to attack on the flanks...