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A long caterpillar of cloud last week wound over the drought-baked hills of Fort Benning, Ga. Within its dusty, choking interior moved a new kind of U.S. fighting team, facing its first test.
Typical was a group of 166 weather-beaten infantrymen turned out from Fort Benning, Ga.: some drafted men, some regulars, a few National Guardsmen. Many of them were college graduates, most had college training. All had shown qualities of leadership. Leadership was the quality the Army sought most in its...
Shot partly on the 501st's home grounds at Fort Benning, Ga., Parachute Battalion follows the rigorous training of a modern parachutist with documentary nicety. And its shiploads of husky, fully equipped youngsters cascading out of their transports like peas from a pod make first-rate drama.
The card had been received fortnight before by a professional soldier, Sergeant William Lester White of Fort Benning, Ga. Sergeant White read it. boiled over, then sent the card with a letter to General George C. Marshall, an old friend. What caused Sergeant White to boil over was the card...
Colonel William C. Lee, commander of Fort Benning's Provisional Parachute Group, was puzzled when he found five of his hard-bitten parachute soldiers begging for a ride in an Army airplane. He questioned the paratroopers, found that for all their flights they had never been in an airplane...