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...enemy opened ten of the dam's gates, released millions of gallons of water into the river valley. The flood reached seven feet in some gorges, forced U.S. engineers to cut two pontoon bridges (to save them from being swept away), then quickly subsided. Meanwhile, the attacking battalion was having a rough time. Murderous artillery and mortar fire forced it back...
World War I: Commanded 17th Machine Gun Battalion 6th Division, on the Meuse-Argonne front. Wounded seven days before the war's end. After the war, served at Fort Benning and the Canal Zone, instructed R.O.T.C. students at University of Florida...
...Committee on Houses this week turned down a request by a unit of the Army Organized Reserve Corps to place representatives in the common rooms at dinner time to answer questions for prospective enlistees. The unit was the 356th Field Artillery Battalion of the 94th Division...
Afraid to Fire. At the Battle of No Name Ridge, according to Sporrer, an Army battalion on the right flank of the 5th Marines flatly refused to deliver supporting fire because it was afraid it would draw return fire from the enemy. On another occasion, he said, four Army tank crews deserted their tanks and fled by foot when another tank was knocked out by two enemy antitank guns...
...Greek soldier owns one uniform, and often as not his shoes have holes in them. He eats and lives at a low standard. A battalion I visited well to the rear of the frontier had 500 men, only 150 beds. The mess hall for each company consisted of a leanto, two large pots, a meat ax, a couple of knives and some ladles. Bread and bean soup, liberally dosed with olive oil, is the main diet. Yet no one ever hears a Greek soldier complaining of the chow. Most of the men never had it so good. Corporal Elias Papadopoulos...