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HORACE F. WULF Lieut. Colonel, Infantry Fort Benning, Ga.
Proportionately few Negroes were put in combat units. The exceptions had good records: the 99th Pursuit Squadron, flying in Tunisia and Sicily (TIME, Sept. 20), the 93rd Infantry Division, fighting on Bougainville (TIME, May 29). Three weeks ago, at Fort Benning, Ga., a company of black soldiers made their first...
A studious officer, he took Army courses and taught them, became a crack instructor at the Infantry School, Fort Benning, served as chief of staff of the 43rd Infantry Division. He volunteered for airborne service in 1942 and speedily won the respect of the paratroopers who had goggled at his...
The Younger Generation 2nd Lieut. John Eisenhower, just out of West Point and expecting a 30-day furlough before reporting to Fort Benning's Infantry School, instead realized the dream of every shavetail: by direct orders of General George C. Marshall, he was given a 30-day assignment on...
Last week General Emmons moved on again. Ramrod-stiff Major General Charles H. Bonesteel, fresh from the command of the infantry school at Fort Benning, took over the bustling Pacific Coast, now safe from Jap attack. Delos Emmons' new job was kept a secret. Airmen wondered whether the Army...