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Bill went to Bougainville with my battalion and went ashore in the thick of the Cape Torokina battle. I hope that some day the American public will realize what combat correspondents go through to bring them the news...
...troops, beginning a new push against Germany, were more than anxious to greet their Russian comrades. Stars & Stripes printed its first Russian lesson; signs of "WELCOME IVAN" blossomed in the Western Front's rubble. Into a U.S. battalion headquarters walked a deadpan U.S. sergeant, costumed as a Russian, who gestured at a map of Germany and said: "We have captured all this. Now, comrades, we need rest, beds...
...succeeds is solemn, starched, 65-year-old Lieut. General Ben Lear. Before the war Ben Lear was a good training officer, made national headlines by marching the rowdy spirits out of a battalion of trainees who went too far in yoo-hooing at girls on a Memphis golf links-where the General happened to be golfing. Lear's new assignment: Deputy Commander to General Ike Eisenhower...
Said one 21-year-old private: "They seem to think us fellows of the 716th [716th Railway Operation Battalion] were the only ones that did anything. That ain't right. All along the line [the railway leading from Cherbourg to Paris] there were any amount of men doing the same thing, maybe on a higher scale...
...their heyday, the G.I. racketeers had waded in cigarets and candy, traded fistfuls of U.S. money at poker games. The 716th had boasted openly of its nickname: "The Millionaire Battalion...