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Last week from London's War Office came a new story of one of those old regiments. The place: Mont Pinçon, highest tor in Normandy, strongly held by the Germans. The time: four days after Minden Day, 1944. A British battalion had bogged down at a small stream footing the mount. Small groups tried to rush the bridge. Each time they were mowed down. The battalion's lieutenant colonel was 30-year-old John Child Pearson of Blundellsland (near Liverpool), who sported the wide mustache that Sandhurst's young graduates affect. Somewhere he found...
...Jarman, who had come along as Saipan's postbattle commander, took over the 27th temporarily, fired several officers, including a regimental colonel. Thereafter, the 27th performed fairly well until its greenest regiment broke and let some 3,000 Japs through in a suicide charge which a Marine artillery battalion finally stopped, at great cost to itself...
...wish to congratulate the outgoing and felicitate the incoming battalion officers. Both groups are made up of very capable men. The old group did a fine job and we'll miss them but at the same time we feel sure the new men will live up to the standards...
...disgust and scorn with jeers and boos and very much-to-the-point one-word descriptions. They have just "seen themselves" portrayed on the screen a la Hollywood's idiotic hoopla. Some marcelled hero with rouged lips and a do-or-die voice has just charged a Jap battalion with six grenades clenched between his Pep-sodent-perfect molars, a Tommy gun in each hand and enough knives and bayonets stuck in his belt to start a hardware store; he has not only wiped out the battalion singlehanded, and held the bridge that saved his division from annihilation...
...solution to all our troubles is at hand. Norm Brown, representing the Amalgamated Real Estate Dealers of Malden, Mass., promises an apartment or room of any type to all who will vote for him as Battalion Commander. All those who are interested will please drop by Room E-22, Chase, and pick up (1) a Brown button; (2) a marked ballot. Better hurry up; they're going fast...