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...first official intelligence estimate, moreover, was that the captured ammo amounted to a week's supply, based on a use rate of 17 tons per battalion per month. A few days later, as if by magic, the estimated use rate was said to be one ton of such ammunition per battalion per month. By such judicious juggling, intelligence analysts overnight increased the value of the haul to an admirable 41 month supply...
...American troops behave that way? Hammer contends that the attack was partly a mistake; misreading their confusing maps, Charlie Company hit a hamlet occupied only by civilians, instead of another that was near by and known to be held by tough troops of the Viet Cong's 48th Battalion. When the G.I.s met no resistance, they did not stop shooting. Both writers quote members of the company who claim that Captain Medina ordered them to kill everything in the village, and some who declare he took part in the killing himself. Both books quote soldiers who say that Lieut...
Baxter called yesterday's meeting to resolve this issue, at which the Committee also discussed a petition drive by John Scovell, a second-year Business School student and Army ROTC Battalion Commander: Scovell received 1620 signatures (20.4 per cent) favoring retention of ROTC out of 7929 students at the College, Law School, and Business School...
...University ROTC Committee may also discuss the results of a petition circulated by John Scovell, a second-year Business School student and Army ROTC Battalion Commander. Scovell's petition to keep ROTC at Harvard yielded 1620 signatures (20.4 per cent) out of 7929 students enrolled in the College, Law School, and Business School...
Died. Major General James Earl Rudder, U.S.A. (ret.), 59, head of the Texas A. & M. University System, and a hero of the Normandy invasion who organized and trained the Second Ranger Battalion, then led its costly (50% casualties) D-day assault on the 100-ft. cliffs at Pointe du Hoe; following complications from a stroke; in Houston...