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Theodore Chadwick, Jr., assisted by Gilbert King and A. C. Petite, will command the 1st Battalion quartered in Eliot House, while the mixed NROTC pre-med contingents of the 2nd Battalion are headed by Batt. Commdr. Dean M. Hennesey, Sub-Commdr. Bruce A. Cameron, and Adjutant L. E. Smart...
...young private with punctured ear drums (North Africa); a paratrooper who injured his back in a practice jump; an ex-National Guardsman suffering from shock and war neurosis; a 45-year-old World War I veteran who was drafted again for World War II and served in a medical battalion until discharged...
Germans had blasted positions out of solid rock on Old Baldy. When a battalion was ordered forward across the flats, the enemy opened up with machine guns and mortars. The men walked through a place where the Germans knew they would have to go. The survivors moved against Baldy. E and K Companies got 200 yd. up the hill and hid in the rocks. L Company tried...
...battalion commander. Colonel Crawford, limped back to his C.P. (comand post), stretched flat on the ground, and said wearily: "I've been through a lot of battles. I've been wounded. But this is the toughest position I've ever had to take. Baldy's almost straight up. There's one trail but that's mined. . . ." Then he fell asleep. The next day his companies took Old Baldy and he said to TIME Correspondent Will Lang: ''My companies are thinned down, Will. I should have reinforcements before I make any more commitments...
...Scholarship blew up because he was not a British subject, Jimmy was reduced to going to Yale ('18) and Princeton (M.A. '20). After graduating from Yale he went to France for the Y.M.C.A., worked in a Boulogne canteen for 5,000 coolies of a military labor battalion. These workers kept Jimmy busy writing their letters home, reading newspapers to them...