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There are the East Surreys, who were once Marines and helped take Gibraltar from the Spanish. On the Somme in 1916 the 8th Battalion advanced more than a mile toward the German trenches kicking four soccer balls, and finally they kicked the balls right into the trenches and the Germans right...
Colonel Gillette offers ample authority to support his anti-red-tape crusade. Said the Duke of Wellington about 1810: "If I attempt to answer the mass of futile correspondence that surrounds me, I should be debarred from all serious business of campaigning." Said a U.S. battalion commander in 1943: "We are actually swamped with typed and mimeographed literature. More than 90% of it is utterly useless." Says Colonel Gillette of a heavily burdened Air Force officer: "The command of which he was adjutant was scattered in three service commands. His headquarters received distribution direct from the Adjutant General...
...djebels were taken. Between them lay a hollow with a huge, V-shaped anti-tank ditch and behind the ditch a nest of 88-mm. guns. The enemy had dug their ditch well, using pneumatic drills to get deep into the rocky subsurface. A British battalion was sent in to clean out that pocket of resistance. It was mean work, but they...
...refused to budge until this morning when they fled before Montgomery's powerful advance. 'We tried to knock 'em off Old Baldy,' said Sergeant Vernon Mugerditchian of Waukegan, Ill., jerking his head at a rounded bare steep cliff. 'We tried first with one battalion and then another, but we just couldn't. They were lookin' down our throats...
Vital Statistics: Yearbook's Al Connors and Co. plan an Alteration May 27. It seems that an Army-Navy coalition was arranged this weekend when Carlos Cole's Army nurse returned to Chicago with a sparkler. Your Battalion Commander, Brinker, he with audible voice, is New York-bound this weekend. An added inducement to the purchase of the "Rough Roll" is the fact that 134 Waves will be represented pictorially. You may also expect your copy of the Yearbook in about one month...