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...stone houses at the end of a narrow valley, guarded on either side by three rugged hills and many smaller ones. The veteran 1st Division's 26th Infantry Regiment was assigned to take these hills, thus opening the way into the town. With the regiment's 2nd Battalion, one of three in the action, was TIME Correspondent Jack Belden. His report, which arrived last week, is of a battle as it looks to the soldier in battle, with all its desperation, irrelevance and confusion...
What to do? Where to go? We had planned to seize the hills in the darkness and then move up the valley to the town. Now it was impossible to proceed with our plan. The lieutenant colonel in command of the 2nd Battalion made a quick decision. He ordered his soldiers to get on and behind a slight ridge of ground to the left of our road...
Elected officers of the battalion announced this week that Donald Marek, of Iowa, has been chosen to edit the school yearbook, and that Ellis M. Prussing, of Ohio, will be Business Manager...
...they're the intelligentsia, the of the upper strata, the brain this battalion. Our PRIVILEGE LIST" has appeared thirty of our and have made the grade. We're proud of our sister scholars but has to stay home...
...mobile tank destroyer (a truck-mounted 75) arrived. The young captain in command of the battalion jumped into the destroyer, charged to the top of the hill, toward the tanks. His men did not expect him to return. He drove off the remaining tanks, and he came back. His battalion regrouped, advanced, eventually seized Niscemi. Softspoken, black-haired, tired, unconsciously heroic, the captain met Correspondent Belden. Belden said: "I hear you got some tanks yourself...