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...Story. Wholly nonpolitical, Children of Yesterday is a history of the 24th Division's Philippine campaign. Other fighting units, among them the 103rd and 84th Divisions, have already been celebrated in combat histories, and doubtless in time every U.S. outfit which saw action in World War II will have a published record of some sort. Some will be of the illustrated souvenir-program type, complete with a frontispiece of the Old Man and his ribbons. Others will tell an earnest, factual, down-to-earth G.I. story-which is what Children of Yesterday sets...
...prominent U.S. playwright (Ro mance, Song of Songs); of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. Stricken with progressive paralysis in 1923 and total blindness in 1931, he remained to the last very much part of the Broadway scene, heard and passed on most scripts before they were produced, made his East 84th Street apartment the gathering place of Katharine Cornell, Helen Hayes, John Barrymore, a stageful of others...
...inspected the 3rd Armored Division (lined up along a dusty road near Neu Isenburg) and the 84th Infantry Division (standing at stiff attention along another road near Weinheim). When he asked Sergeant Wayne B. Hoover, of Andover, O., how long he had been there and whether he wanted to go home, all young Hoover could do was gulp emotionally. Said President Truman to his homesick occupation troops: "I hope when you come home you will find home as you want...
Battle of Bridges. First to reach the Rhine, the Ninth Army's 83rd Division seized Neuss, opposite Düsseldorf. The 2nd Armored Division took Urdingen, four miles from Krefeld, and the 84th Division grabbed Homberg, across from Duisburg. Soon the Yanks had a 20-mile stretch of the river's west bank...
...hands. It was the second largest German town to fall in the west. * By then, vehicular bridges spanned the Roer, and supplies, guns, armor and troop reinforcements were flowing steadily across. The Ninth captured Steinstrass, 18 miles from Cologne, which had been a refitting center for German armor. The 84th and 102nd Infantry Divisions captured some enemy 88s with ammunition intact. In a night attack on Merzenich, the First Army took prisoners in their sleeping clothes...