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...what officers of the school expect to be one of the most colorful events of the fall season, the Naval Training School (Radar) will take part in a Battalion Review on the Cambridge Common tomorrow morning at 11:30 o'clock. A high ranking, but as yet unannounced, Naval officer from the Training Office of the First Naval District is to inspect the several Marine and Naval units comprising the Radar School...
Archduke Otto of Austria, whose proposal for a U.S. Army battalion of Austrian nationals was finally nixed by both the Army and the State Department, was finally nixed by the Army as a soldier. Aliens must be approved before they can be inducted; the Army simply labeled the handsome young hot potato unacceptable, without going into details...
...leader of the patrol, his last instructions: "If you get up to the town and there's nobody there, fire two red flares. Then come back to L Company and direct them on the route you took toward the town. Then I'll bring the whole battalion forward." In the middle of the night Mastyl and his seven men returned. Halfway out, said Mastyl, he had been machine-gunned. He tried to work his men around a slope on the blind side of the gun, but immediately ran into another. "We couldn't get past," he told...
...hopes run away with us. Horner gave last-minute instructions to Lieut. Everett Booth, commander of Company I, who was to go out in full strength toward the city: "Never mind the banks or anything like that. Head straight for the mayor's office and set up the battalion command post there...
...routine exercises more than 100 guns obliterate targets 800 yards square less than five minutes after they are assigned-incredible by the standards at Soissons or Saint-Mihiel. Some of this speed-up comes from having changed the firing unit from the battery of four guns to the battalion of twelve. Some comes from lightweight radio and improved field telephone. But most comes from the G.F.T...