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...smell a battalion of Japs a good 500 yards away...
...afternoon mail brought the first assignments [of your your Institute stuff], . . . This old farmhouse we're using for a [Battalion Command Post] is constantly shaking from artillery firing on three sides of us and . . . we've been hearing heavy German concentrations land on the nearest village . . . since 4 a.m. . . . [You will get] an idea of the staff sergeant's enthusiasm when I say that he stopped reading his textbook only when our own batteries opened up on some Me-109s that were gyrating around overhead...
...just came from Italy where I was assigned to the Japanese 100th Infantry Battalion. I never in my life saw any more of a true American than they are. To these people who don't have any military rank, probably don't even know that these little "yellow-bellies" (as one writer wrote) are saving his skin: I only wish that these people could witness these little "yellow-bellies" fight...
Will Lang of TIME was one of the seven American newsmen who waded ashore with the American troops when they made their surprise landing just below Rome, joined a battalion moving up for the first attack at dawn-as he had often done before...
While it was still dark on Sunday morning, members of Company B, 27th Tank Battalion at Camp Campbell, Ky. were awakened into a dream. No bugle but a little musical bell sounded reveille in the barracks. With proper but unprecedented politeness, mess attendants stepped up to the bunks and said: "Here's the menu; will you have breakfast...