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...from home and U.S.O. shows. Part of his undeserved trouble can be blamed on the recently adopted Uniform Code of Military Justice which weakens the formal disciplinary powers of company-level officers and makes it necessary to punish any offense, if it is to be punished at all, at battalion-level court-martial. We hope that Lt. Anderson will be given a full and honest hearing. We will need men like him if the guns begin firing again...
...Olympics, smart enough to serve as General Dwight Eisenhower's ETO Deputy Commander in 1945. But he will probably rack up his chief fame in military annals as the iron-willed disciplinarian ("No mistake should ever go uncorrected") who nearly marched the brogans off a high-spirited battalion of trainees in 1941 after the lads had yoo-hooed at some barelegged girls on a Memphis golf course, where, unfortunately for the G.I.s, the general was also having a game...
Died. Brigadier General Paul Thomas ("Pete") Carroll, 44, White House staff secretary; of a heart ailment; in Washington. A battalion commander under Dwight Eisenhower in World War II, handsome West Pointer Carroll served Ike in a variety of posts after the war (e.g., as top aide at SHAPE), after the inauguration became the President's chief liaison officer with the Pentagon before taking over as staff secretary...
Hospital Siege. Several hours after the affair at La Locha, 80 boiling-mad cadets raced through the capital's outskirts to the half-completed Roosevelt Hospital, where a battalion of Liberators lay encamped, and attacked. From the army base beside nearby Aurora airfield, regular officers quickly saw the chance they had been waiting for, rushed reinforcements to the cadets...
...Some laughing Vietnamese soldiers in soaking-wet uniforms were displaying their new collection of Communist rifles and grenades. They held out hatfuls of Communist paper money that bore the portrait of Ho Chi Minh. "My men surprised a Viet Minh company, and we killed 15 of them," a Vietnamese battalion commander explained. "They say our morale is bad, but you should have seen it. My men dived into the river to get at the enemy...