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...willowy, green-eyed Pepita has spread up & down 145 miles of front. A registered nurse, an ambulance driver who won the Croix de Guerre evacuating wounded under fire in Belgium in 1940, a French Resistance fighter, Andree-Claire Montboisses is assistante sociale to the commander of the French volunteer battalion. No other nation among the 17 in the U.N. army has anything like her. Her job: to boost morale and minister to the wounded in battle...
...Emperor of Austria-Hungary; of a heart attack; at his home in exile, a hotel in Mce, France. Orphaned in 1914 when his mother and his father, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, were assassinated at Sarajevo -the spark that touched off World War I -Maximilian took command of an Austrian infantry battalion, won decorations for valor in fighting the Italians. After the Armistice, he was mostly in flight, in exile, or in the Nazis' "protective custody," ended up a forgotten anachronism living under the alias "the Count of Kyburg...
...India for a record 6½ years (1936-43); of coronary thrombosis while shooting game on his estate near South Queensferry, Scotland. An old-fashioned peer who believed that the aristocracy has responsibilities as well as privileges, Lord Linlithgow distinguished himself as a soldier (commander of a Royal Scots battalion in World War I), politician (deputy chairman of Scotland's Conservative Party), businessman (chairman of Midland Bank) and educator (Chancellor of Edinburgh University). As Viceroy of India, he faced with frosty courage his double troubles of constitutional changes and organizing the country for war: he jailed Gandhi and Nehru...
...Belgium and Switzerland. Others followed from Africa, Japan, Calcutta, Rio de Janeiro and even Union City, N.J. Some days brought more than 1,000 cards. Some people sent money, chocolates; one offered him a job when he grows up; another offered a 15-day round trip to Salzburg. A battalion of the French Foreign Legion adopted him as mascot...
...Lieut. Colonel James P. Carne. On board the Empire Fowey, there were only 15 survivors of that battle. By special permission of the King, the Gloucesters wore the blue and gold emblem of the U.S. Distinguished Unit Citation, but few of them had decorations for individual exploits. Explained a battalion officer: "I'd start to write a man up for the Military Cross and then I'd get to thinking about what the chaps did at the Imjin. It just didn't seem proper...