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...Division: Major General Clarence R. Huebner, 55, who turned down a West Point appointment to enlist, rose from the ranks. He was a company cook at Fort Logan, Colo, in 1910, climbed to lieutenant colonel commanding an infantry battalion (in the ist Division) in World...
...post of assistant Division chaplain. This would bring him a step-up in rank, and there wasn't so much ducking German 88s. Father Hoffmann's rejoinder was that he was interested not a whit in rank, that his place was with the boys of the ist Battalion. He stayed with us. Wherever the going was toughest on the front line, you'd see Hoffmann strolling along with a shovel. With this he'd scoop out a little depression and then get horizontal for a few minutes beside some G.I. Having spoken, he'd move...
...Battalion of one of the 9th's regiments stormed Fort Equeurdreville, a citadel like a buried warship at the extreme left (west) of the line. In the center Major General Ira Wyche's 79th Division smashed successive layers of Fort du Roule; on the right Major General Raymond O. Barton's 4th Division drove to the waterfront...
Turnover in Command. This officer's battalion commander was wounded in his command post about an hour after it was set up-a nasty mortar tear in his backside. The major took over command, but after a couple of hours he was slightly wounded in the back by a shellburst. Then an observer took over until a regular turned up. He was the fourth commander of the battalion within ten hours...
Three other battalion commanders in our northern force were wounded the first day. One of them, one of the best known figures in the armed forces, was struck by a 13-mm. shell which punctured his lung, and five pieces of artillery shrapnel which tore into his arm and wrist. I saw him in a foxhole just after the doctors had dressed his wounds...