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...first time in history, group sponsors will participate. There'll be 21 girl sponsors in all, one from each platoon leader, company commander, battalion leader, and the regimental commander...
...first time in the history of the Unit at Harvard group sponsors will participate in the ceremonies. Each platoon leader, company and battalion commander, and the regimental commander has chosen a girl to act as sponsor for his group. Flowers will be presented to the sponsors before the review. Also for the first time, Harvard will have a chance to hear the newly formed V-12-NROTC Drum and Bugle Corps...
France's Jean Borotra, the Bounding Basque of tennis fame, bounded down a Tirolese road, accompanied by a bribed German guard and romped into the ranks of an American battalion. A few moments later he and the Americans raced up the Alpine road again to picturesque Itter Castle. There, waiting to be liberated, was a batch of Hitler's most prized captives. Near the Brenner Pass and in southern Germany U.S. troops released others. Some of the freed...
First Forty. It was the women's own decision to go to war. There was a shortage of men carriers and 40 women volunteered. The Army paid them 1.50 pesos a day. The first day they made three times as many trips as the men. At least one battalion of the 33rd Division lived and fought last week on supplies, carried up by the Igorot women. When Japs fired on the trails the men dropped their loads and scattered; the women, undisturbed, plodded on in a long single file to the front...
...Blood. Then came Lieut. Colonel John G. Cassidy's battalion. In four days of bitter fighting Major General John R. Hodge's XXIV Corps troops won and lost the ridgetop three times. The Japanese met them coming up, popping out of caves and old tombs to hurl grenades and satchel charges-heavy explosives, carried on a handle like a satchel, and usually used to blast fortifications. Japanese artillery fire pounded them while they were on top. Then Japanese infantry charged furiously with fixed bayonets and ousted them...