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First off, and of real interest to the Junior Battalion is the fact that the conflict between our last final and the senior class graduation has been decided in favor of the case system. As a result, our predecessors must receive their final ovation without our presence. As will be officially announced this week, we are off after a formation in traveling uniform at 1155, 23 May; with leave expiring 1945, 4 June...
...Social Committee" to meet the demands of what is promising to be a gruelling, but-we-leve-it-after-dark season, has now been elected by the battalion. The election conclave had many of the aspects and all of the noise of a big-time affair. Pryor, Diano and Jaffa will hold the billets of President, Vice-President, and Secretary-Treasurer respectively. Said each of the office holders after his success,--Pryor, "Well, I'll be damned." Diano, "My dear, devoted and loyal constituents--" (Throw him out! Throw him out!--His devoted constituents shouted.) Jaffa--"Now boys, I want...
...first battalion inspection is now behind us. (O.K. Mac, you can breathe out now.) Many new and interesting things were discovered. 1. Shoes can actually be shined by polishing. 2. That is a whisker on the foremost outcropping of your chin. Lt. Salmon said it was. 3. Ties and trousers are not to be worn at half-mast even if your Aunt Bessle...
...Indian, one-quarter Irish, was a big, silent farm hand and mechanic. He learned to walk at five months, to ride a pony at six years, could draw an accurate bead on a tomato can at 50 yards when he was seven. Last September after the Salerno landing his battalion was pinned down by machine-gun and mortar fire. Disregarding a broken instep, the big Indian advanced alone, killed two Germans who fired at him from a nearby house. Then he slipped behind a machine-gun nest, killed its two occupants, picked off another German in another nest, captured...
Said the citation: "His bold, aggressive actions, . . . were largely responsible for repulsing a German counterattack which, if successful, would have isolated his battalion and destroyed his company...