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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Demolition of Shepherd Hall will begin toward the end of this month, James Biggar '13, manager of University real estate and caretaking, disclosed yesterday. No new construction is expected to occupy the ground, Biggar said; the University Intends to cultivate it as a grass plot...
Fighting under Major General Troy Middleton, the 45th overran 1,000 square miles in three weeks. German prisoners complained: "Don't you Americans ever sleep?" In September, alongside the 36th (a National Guard division from Texas), the 45th landed at Salerno to begin one of the war's most grueling campaigns. Another National Guard division, the 34th (from Iowa and Minnesota), helped hold that beachhead...
Thirteen months later, the 37th landed with MacArthur in Lingayen Gulf to begin the race south for Manila. In three days it covered 50 miles. On its flank raced the spectacular ist Cavalry, rolling on wheels. Beightler swore: "We've fought our way a hundred miles and we won't let those feather merchants beat us in." Through a mid-morning mist the 37th saw Manila at last. The ist Cavalry, plunging ahead to liberate Santo Tomas, did beat them in, but it was the 37th which paddled across the Pasig River to seize the old walled Intramuros...
...When that has been accomplished we will begin to worry about long-range policies and long-range treatment of Germany, and we hope that you don't get too worried about the long-range problem without first giving us an opportunity of solving the short-range problems. . . ." General Eisenhower's SHAEF will be the central administrative agency for the U.S., British and French zones until a Group Control Council, also including the Russians, takes over and coordinates administration under the Allied Control Commission...
These men come to despise their sergeant (Billy Hartnell) so intensely that they formally charge him with abusing a martinet's privileges. But when the sergeant talks it over with his lieutenant (ex-star Lieut. Col. David Niven), you begin to realize just how much wisdom sometimes lies behind systematically rigid discipline. The sergeant's conclusion: "We haven't got a dud there...