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Much depended on the few hours before the anti-Hitler troops could get to Berlin. Nazi headquarters in Berlin had to be seized, and the Berlin Gauleiter, Propaganda Boss Goebbels, arrested. Orders to do this were given to the commander of the Guards Battalion, Major Remer...
...raised $5,000 to send six Hawaiians (a Gold Star mother and five veterans) off to Washington to make Connally eat his words. En route, the Hawaiians stopped off at Austin, Texas, and got a rousing reception from old friends in Texas' 36th Division. The reason: a "lost battalion" of the Texas 36th, when encircled by the enemy in France in 1944, was rescued by the U.S. 442nd regimental combat team, which was made up mostly of Hawaiian-born Japanese-Americans. At the time, none of the Texans made inquiries about the Hawaiians' ancestry...
Last week the island's commander, Colonel Maurice J. Fitzgerald, ordered the combat-famed U.S. 27th (Wolfhound) Regiment, which now guards Koje, to screen Compound 62 and give the non-Communists a chance to get out. At 5:30 a.m., a battalion of Wolfhounds under Major John J. Klein of Houston, Texas, moved in hoping to catch the prisoners asleep. But prisoner sentinels gave the alarm...
...mice and rats I have a loathing." At the sight of a Korean rodent she is likely to shout and climb atop the nearest ration or ammo box. Chic in the best French tradition, Pepita admits to 38 years (the chivalrous French have omitted her age from the battalion records), is pleased that no one in Korea has made a pass at her. Says she: "They are so very correct, always. It is all one family, and I am their sister. Oh, they are so fine-I love them all." Her saddest job: writing home to the families...
Last week a new battalion commander ordered her not to go into the front line. Said shocked Pepita: "Five kilometers from the front! ... I might as well be dining at Maxim's!" Mademoiselle was angry to a degree which bearded Major Bertrand de Seze could describe only with closed eyes and a quick shaking of the head. Said she: "You may be sure I shall remain angry until I am back to the forward company." A French liaison officer guessed that that would not be long...