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Promoters of this huge program are Major General Edwin P. Parker Jr., 52, who makes his staff desk-warmers go through a cross-country run and obstacle race once a week, and one of his battalion commanders, Lieut. Colonel James L. Grier. A onetime West Point boxer, Colonel Grier started the program by rounding up 800 pairs of boxing gloves, showing his troops how to use them...
...photographic reconnaissance on the Northwest African front, the Air Medal was awarded to Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, who last December got the Distinguished Flying Cross. In Auckland, N.Z., on leave from command of a raider battalion in the South Pacific, older brother Lieut. Colonel James Roosevelt was reported headed for the San Diego Naval Hospital with a light case of malaria...
Otto of Habsburg's dream of marching into conquered Vienna at the head of an Austrian battalion in the U.S. Army has come...
...Department had encouraged the youthful pretender to the Austrian throne to recruit such an Army unit. Last week, tacitly admitting its mistake, the Army quietly announced the disbanding of the battalion...
...both men and materiel during those four days of fighting. When the 1st Division retired from the southern ridge called Djebel Berda at the end of the fourth day, it was to prepare for a fresh offensive. By that time the men were so tired that, as one battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Ben Sternberg, put it, "if you'd told a man a German was on the other side of a rock he wouldn't have given a damn." But, the Colonel added, "we could have held that stinking ground...