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...mean recognition of a Cuban government in exile and U.S. permission for renewed exile raids against Castro. At Miami Stadium, 30 khaki-clad survivors of the Bay of Pigs marched across the rain-soaked baseball diamond to present Miller with a "revered emblem"-a gold-knobbed flagstaff representing their Battalion 2506. It was flagless, they bitterly explained, because their battalion flag had been presented to John F. Kennedy, who had promised that it would be returned "in a free Havana." The emblem was now on tour as a prop in the fund-raising effort for the Kennedy Memorial Library...
Married. Mamie Eisenhower Moore, 22, Mamie's niece; and 2nd Lieut. Steven James Rees, 22, serving in the Army's ceremonial Old Guard Battalion at Fort Myer, Va.; at the post chapel...
York was part of a 17-man detail ordered to seek out the machine guns. The detail pursued two Germans into thick underbrush, suddenly burst into an open space-which happened to be occupied as a battalion headquarters of the enemy. Startled while lounging around after their breakfast, most of the Germans started to surrender. Then German machine guns started raking the area from only 30 yds. away. Of the Americans, only York and seven privates survived. While the seven privates scrambled into the brush, York, still surrounded by some prostrate, ready-to-give-up Germans, crouched...
...head of the column and his men strung along its sides, York marched off his catch. When more machine-gun crews loomed ahead, York put his pistol to the German major's head, got him to order their surrender. Eventually, York herded 132 prisoners into his American battalion field headquarters...
...there was even a baseball team at Mare Island, Calif., where Hank was awaiting shipment to the Pacific. But the easy life came to an abrupt halt. "One morning," says Hank, "this sergeant came up to me and said, 'Why don't you volunteer for the Raider battalion?' I said okay. But the first thing they told me was, 'You've got to swim a mile with a full pack on your back.' I said, 'Hell, I can't even swim,' and they turned me down. I told the sergeant what...