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...regimental commanders and nearly all battalion C.O.s. At Levant, where the Germans fought bitterly from their camouflaged hideouts, the casualties struck deep again. By then, because Canadian replacements were fewer, the outfit was more than two-thirds U.S. and many of its officers were ex-noncoms commissioned on the battlefield...
Army men learned without surprise last week that Lieut. General Lesley McNair -who served his country for 40 years, fought in two wars, trained an army of some 7,000,000 men and died on a French battlefield at the age of 61-had left an estate...
Tanks on Tinian. North of Guam, 125 miles, lay another U.S.-Jap battlefield: 48-square-mile Tinian, only three miles from Saipan. On its comparatively level ground, the 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions deployed more tanks than had yet been seen on a Pacific island...
...July, the War Department announced that "Whitey" McNair was no longer in his old place. In recognition of a job superbly done, he had been sent overseas to combat duty. Last week from the Normandy battlefield came the end of the story. "Whitey" McNair had been killed in action...
Fifteen enlisted men won battlefield promotions. After Cassino, where they had spearheaded the crossing of the Rapido River and had clung to a corner of the town for many days, their combat strength was down...