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Significant of the infantryman's increased importance is the news that more of him are needed. The War Department has announced that 36,000 men who had volunteered for the Air Forces were being turned back to the Ground and Service Forces. (Lighter-than-expected air casualties are also...
Despite this record, he was admitted to Ft. Benning, Ga. Officers' Candidate School. Somehow he got through Benning's tough, work-crammed infantry course. Three months later the unstable Swancutt got his commission.
Sight Unseen. In Fort Benning, Ga., Sergeant William Eller made a parachute landing in a clump of trees, discovered that the grove was camouflage for a concrete runway. He survived.
I read with amusement and chagrin the menu which was to be served to all soldiers on Christmas day (TIME, Dec. 27). . . . "Subject to no change except for the most extreme fortunes of battle." To the best of my knowledge, no battle was being fought on or near Fort Benning...
Fort Benning, Ga.