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...were Oklahomans. The regiment was one of several units ordered to march inland, seize high ground commanding a key bridge on the Sele and forestall what finally happened-the German thrust which almost split the beachhead. Said the regiment's Colonel, explaining the orders to his battalion officers: "It's pretty far inland and we don't know exactly what the enemy's got in that area. But it must be urgent to get that high ground, or we wouldn't be sent off with so little information...
...early morning a German plane bombed the regiment, dispersed for two hours' sleep in the fields. Three wounded men were sent to the rear; the regiment marched on. By 6 a.m. Lieut. Colonel Earl Taylor's 3rd Battalion was near the bridge on the Sele...
...should all start making plans now for the Battalion Dance on October 13. That will be our first and last free night while students at the school. It will also be our only chance to get together socially as a battlion...
...when you go into action," General MacArthur told the U.S. and Australian troops, "is that each of you shall kill one Japanese. If you do you will win." They did. They fought in mud four feet deep, often in continuous, drenching rain (the survivors of one battalion had been in action for 40 days, on 36 of which it rained). And, as in the aerial battles, which preceded the jungle and mountain fighting, individual heroism sustained and inspired the collective resistance, won the final victory...
Early in the Tunisian campaign the U.S. Medical Corps was still using the old treatment-hospitalization, long rest, etc. Only 2% of the patients were able to return to combat duty. Then U.S. doctors tried the quick method. Now at forward battalion aid stations they urge nervous cases to talk out their fears. If the men are exhausted or hold back their stories, they get barbiturate sedatives to quiet them and loosen their tongues. Once their story is told, most nervous cases feel relieved and, after a few days' rest at evacution hospitals, 60% are ready to go back...