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Like a sensitive plant growing in a bull pit, the U.S. paratroop platoon modestly expanded to a battalion, then to a provisional group...
...taken; a task force of infantrymen, tanks and tank destroyers of the 103rd Division set out to do the job. In a scout car, jouncing along at the head of the little column, was Lieut. Charles Thomas, a Negro company commander in the Negro 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion...
...rubbing sulfanilamide powder into a hole about the size of a quarter in the boy's left arm. The marine on another table had his face covered. The doctor examining him said to Dr. Silvis: "I think we had better send him to the Corps Medical Battalion. They are better fixed to diagnose eye cases. It looks like this fellow will lose one or maybe both his eyes...
Coming from the Commander United States Eighth Fleet, the award cited Lt. Seaman "For distinguishing himself by meritorious service as Commander of a company of the First Beach Battalion during the amphibious invasion of Southern France on 15 August...
...beach this morning I saw at least 50 men still fighting despite their wounds. Captain William Ketcham, commanding Company I in Vandegrift's battalion, was nicked in the arm and leg by snipers' bullets, but was merely contemptuous of the Japs' aim: "Shot at me twelve times and barely broke the skin with two bullets," said he. This battalion, in its brief periods in the front line, has had more than 100 casualties (mostly wounded). As it prepared to attack again today, Vandegrift cautioned his men: "Sniper fire gets very hot around here-better keep down...