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...Battalion...
Archduke Otto, 30-year-old Pretender to the throne of the nonexistent Austrian Empire, presumably fit for the Army, learned that he would be called to his local board within two months. His project to organize a special U.S. Army battalion of Austro-Hungarians had been abandoned by the Army and State Department as a nuisance...
...from movie magazines. The bond-selling tours of such figures as Fairbanks. Pickford, Hart and Chaplin, though vociferous, were mild compared with the riotous junkets of World War II. Even the publicity stunts had a certain innocence. Sample: Mary Pickford's "adoption" of 600 men of the 2nd Battalion, ist California Field Artillery, each of whom wore her picture in a gold locket and, for the duration, undertook to use tobacco she furnished...
...neglected to make a distinction between the two native military organizations in American Samoa. The natives in the picture are "Samoan Marines," not "Fitas." The Fita-Fita Guard and Band is a part of the U.S. Navy and was organized at the naval station in 1904. . . . The First Samoan Battalion, Marine Corps Reserve, as the name implies, is a part of the Marine Corps and was organized in the summer...
...artillery which covered the hills on both sides of the pass and the valley between. And they had observation posts on the highest peaks which could direct their fire anywhere. The 9th Division, in its first offensive action, could not keep pace with the ist. Its officers, particularly the battalion and company commanders, were not so well trained or experienced. But the 9th's performance, though ragged, was no disgrace: it was up against a terrain that was ideally suited to defense and had been prepared for months...