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...never saw their first person reports of these raids in TIME (they did not clear in time to catch our issue deadlines)-but still I think knowing about these never-printed stories might make TIME more valuable to you. For it might help you understand better how-from Attu to Salamaua, from Burma to Salerno -we always try to have one of our own men at every probable scene of battle-even if he has to spend silent weeks and sometimes months waiting for the news to break...
Robert Sherrod spent three months in the dreariest hole in northern Australia last year waiting for the Jap invasion to come (one story we're mighty glad he never did have to cover)-and this spring after his part in the fighting at Attu he shivered for ten more weeks in the Aleutians waiting to go into Kiska with the invasion that found the Japs were gone. (Last week Sherrod took off on still another battlefront assignment...
Author of the manual is Captain Roy L. Atteberry, a former enlisted man from Dallas, who got an appointment to West Point, was graduated in 1941. Captain Atteberry remembered all he had learned in his year in Alaska, carefully analyzed all the reports of what went wrong in Attu, then wrote his handbook. Some conclusions: Warriors' Habits. "For some reason it seems that mud and water and war always go together, so since the days of the Axe, stone, M I, the doughfoot has always had a rough time with his wet feet...
...huge scale. North Africa proved his point-and led ground forces to multiply orders for time shells. Long before the War Department had recognized the G.F.T., Sill was turning out homemade ones, paper strips mounted on beaverboard. Young officers took them to Guadalcanal and Tunisia, Attu and Sicily. Last month Balmer's command won official commendation from Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair, head of Army Ground Forces: "Battle results . . . have demonstrated conclusively that the current artillery doctrines are sound and probably the most advanced in the world. . . . [This] is due . . . almost wholly to a single factor: the Field Artillery...
...General Eugene M. Landrum was picked to do the moving. In difficult terrain and weather and within easy bombing range of Kiska, he built strong bases in the Andreanof Islands. For this Gene Landrum won the Army's D.S.M. His next assignment was driving the Japs out of Attu. For vigorous execution of a soundly planned offensive, the Navy last week added its D.S.M...