Word: battalions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boys in the division's 152nd Field Artillery Battalion called their friend "Little Joe from Pozorrubio." Little Joe stuck with them through six months of combat. But when the 43rd moved on to occupation duty in Japan, José went sadly back to work in the rice paddies...
...paddyfield on the village edge, stretcher bearers brought in wounded for relay to Tsaolaochi. About a dozen men in various states of shock and pain lay on the ground. Fresh bandages reeking of alcohol seemed their only care-no plasma or morphine. They suffered stoically. A battalion commander, his throat and shoulder torn by shrapnel, retched helplessly. Another man had a broken ankle bare in the chill air, propped up on a wad of straw...
...field hospital, where the wounded are left to die because there is no medicine; the group of high-ranking generals squatting in a dugout with nothing to do but talk because their units have been wiped out; the early-morning battle in the snow, in which an infantry battalion is shot down to a man between the onrushing rows of Soviet tanks; the transport plane, filled with unopened letters, which lies wrecked on the steppe...
...post office reported a record haul of 4,100 on one day), including one from President Truman, one from the Pope and one from General Eisenhower. "We are particularly happy," wired Ike, "because the birthday of the prince is the same as that of Mrs. Eisenhower." A six-foot battalion commander of the Home Guard sent a sweater knitted by himself. New York's National Institute of Diaper Services sent 100 diapers, each one stamped with the royal arms...
...Army's own testimony went far to corroborate Howlin' Mad. After relieving Smith, General Jarman reported simply: "The problem . . . was to get the 27th to advance." In an official memo on the conduct of the 27th, Jarman explained: "I have noted ... a lack of offensive spirit ... A battalion will run into one machine gun and be held up for several hours." Other Army officers reported "fainthearted" attacks, noted "a lack of spirit in moving forward...