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...passed several years ago authorizes officers decorated in World War I for services beyond the call of duty to go up one grade upon retirement. Veteran Tommy Holcomb commanded a Marine battalion in World War I, was under fire at St. Mihiel, Soissons, the Argonne. Lieut. Colonel Holcomb came out strewn with ribbons...
...Trusting Bulldozer. During the Sicily campaign men of the 54th Battalion saved the lives of more than 175 soldiers trapped on a bombed and burning LST by erecting a bridge of pontoons to another ship. On another day they rescued a fleet of landing craft which was being pounded to pieces in the surf. Bulldozer operators steered their caterpillar machines into the waves and pushed the boats out into deeper, quieter water...
...Solomons, where he commanded a now famed battalion of raiders, 46-year-old Colonel Edson directed his troops with never a flicker of his eyelashes, never a rise in his impersonal voice. Men under fire were braced by his characteristic battle pose: arms folded easily over his lower chest, feet wide apart, eyes darting from under his steel helmet...
...Eagles voted unanimously in Seattle to deport all U.S. Japanese after the war. So did the Portland Progressive Business Men's Club, and the Oregon State Legion. Hardly anyone ever bothered to distinguish between the alien Japanese, who are deportable, and U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry. A battalion of U.S.-born Japs is fighting well in the front line in Italy; another 2,500 Japanese-Americans are elsewhere in the U.S. Army; hundreds serve in Military Intelligence in the South Pacific; 20,000, cleared by FBI, now live in the Midwest & East. But hate-mongers were not troubled...
Lieut, (j.g.) Jay Odell, of St. Paul, was a Naval air liaison officer on Tarawa. The battalion he landed with lost nearly all its staff, so Odell served as Operations officer for a Marine battalion. Afterwards, back in Honolulu, he told this story...