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Food Was Good. In Britain Lieut. Harold Ravson of East Orange, NJ. was commended for good baking. His bakery battalion turns out tasty, greyish-brown springy bread for soldiers. Doughnuts were harder to get because of restrictions on dried milk and cooking fats. Doughboys had to learn to like English and Scottish scones (biscuits) and oatcakes. With all the change of foods and living conditions, Americans in Britain were in good health. Chief U.S. Army Surgeon Colonel Paul Hawley said there had been only six deaths from diseases. But there were 48 from injuries on crooked English roads, where...
...ceremony, Chaplain (Col.) William D. Cleary, commandant of the school, presented diplomas after Brig. Gen. Thomas E. Troland, in command of the M.P. battalion of the First Service Command, delivered the graduation address...
Carlson began to train the battalion for kill-&-run work last December. He got his grounding in such warfare in China, where he campaigned with China's famed Communist Eighth Route Army. When the Navy Department tried to shush his outspoken praise of the Chinese he quit the Marine Corps. He returned to duty after...
Graduation ceremonies will begin with an invocation by Chaplain (Lieut. Col.) Ralph C. Deibent of the Chaplain School Faculty. An address will be delivered by Brig. Gen. Thomas E. Trolane, commandant of the M. P. battalion of the First Service Command. Chaplain (Col.) Cleary will then present the diplomas and the program will be concluded with a benediction by the Right Reverend Monsignor Albert F. Hickey, of St. Paul's Church in Cambridge...
...guns will be kept at the armory in Memorial Hall, where battallion units will secure them and return them before and after every drill. Exempt from carrying the rifles are platoon, company, and battalion officers as well as members of the regimental staff...