Word: battalions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe all these stories you read in the daily papers, most of them are just propaganda gotten up by one side or the other. I certainly ought to know for I was in the front line with a machine-gun battalion at the seige of Teruel and drove an ammunition truck with supplies at the Madrid front...
...Battalion Commander Major Joseph F. Nee '38 will open the proceedings when he calls the unit to order for inspection. The four batteries, under the commands of Captains Albert E. Brunelli '38, Joseph Franklin '38, Francis X. Leary '38, and Alfred M. Torrielli '38, will then march out for the "pass in review" manoeuver on the soccer field...
Battery "D", under commend of Captain Brunelli and Lieutenant John Briggs, 3d '38, will execute a close formation, exhibition drill during the review. Three members of the battalion will be decorated with medals for outstanding work and interest in their R.O.T.C. work...
After the review the battalion will break up into various groups who will indulge in such "laboratory sessions" as service of the piece, equitation, pistol firing, harnessing, communications, orientation, preparation of firing data, and firing of the Field Artillery trainer gun. The inspection party will take in each of these shows, and others interested are at liberty to watch also...
...Teruel which has been quiet since March, Rightist troops under General Jose Varela seized the Leftist key stronghold, Escorihuela, prepared for an offensive against the Teruel-Sagunto highway. On the north Catalan front, brisk Leftist counterattacks regained several strategic villages and Barcelona restored contact with "the Leftist Lost Battalion" (43rd Division). "We prefer to fight where we are with our backs to the French frontier!" announced its commander...