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...plaque is in memory of 'the valiant dead and 68 missing' of an amphibious tractor battalion. Another commemorates the heroism of the officers and men of the Special Weapons Unit...
...cleaned them out all right, and then I stuck my neck out again and volunteered to locate our 3rd Battalion, which was beyond a hill a mile away...
...walked and crawled a mile under continuous rifle, machine-gun and mortar fire, then worked his way back with important information that the battalion was not there at all, and the Nazis had dug in strongly. Said Kelly...
Against the 1,500 by 2,000 yd. triangular island of Engebi, Harry Hill sent the 22nd Marines, commanded by Colonel John T. Walker of Texas. Against cigar-shaped Eniwetok he sent men of the 106th Infantry (Brooklyn National Guard troops) of Colonel Russell G. Ayers, plus perhaps one battalion of Marines...
...afternoon, in a village near Cassino, German soldiers walked up to the door of a battalion command post, clicked heels, saluted snappily and called out: "1st der Herr Hauptmann da?" The answer was always the same: "Ja, der Hauptmann ist hier." Each German strode confidently into the building-and out of the war, a prisoner...