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Among countless examples of heroism that were recorded last week not the least was that of black-skinned, black-toothed Sergeant Katue, of the Papuan Infantry Battalion, who turned up at a New Guinea base after stalking Japs through the jungles for 73 days and picking off 26 of them, including one in an orange tree...
...years at Minnesota, Coach Bierman had built up a football reputation second only to that of Immortal Knute Rockne. His terrifying machines, fashioned of hefty Minnesota homebreds, five times power-pushed their way to the mythical U.S. football championship. For this year's campaign he had mobilized another battalion of heavy tanks. But Pearl Harbor pulled Bernie Bierman back to the Marines, with whom he had served during World War I. He was assigned to the Navy's Pre-Flight Training center at the University of Iowa, to teach football to future aviators...
Pointers on drill, demerit systems, and the organization of regiment, battalion, and battery, are all taken up in the book and should prove especially helpful to new students entering the course...
...Russians claimed that a Finnish motorized battalion was helping the Germans at Stalingrad and that "old men and cripples" were being conscripted to help the Germans storm Leningrad. In Washington Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope denied the charges, added that Finland "wants to cease fighting as soon as the threat to her existence has been averted" and her security guaranteed...
...when temporary stars fall from generals like Cinderella's finery at midnight, Lieut. General Eisenhower (who became a brigadier general only a year ago) and Major General Handy will revert to lieutenant colonel and major respectively, with the right to run a regiment and a battalion. Until then, they have their turn at making history and making their stars stick...