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Soon after John Habinyak, Manhattan waterproofer, arrived at North Carolina's Fort Bragg in July, he announced he had been working for $10 a day, had no intention of functioning for $21 a month. People who had known him at home in Manhattan said he was a quiet, peaceable fellow. Before long he had become a surly nuisance. He spat on the messhall floor, refused to clean it up. He scattered rubbish around his bed, refused to do anything about it. Locked up in the guardhouse, he was taken out to work, refused again...
...commander of the new, rapidly expanding Armored Force is an Army athlete, poloist, artilleryman: 53-year-old Jacobs Loucks Devers (rhymes with severs). One of the Army's youngest major generals, a colonel until 1940, "Jakie" Devers has lately done very well in command of Fort Bragg, N.C., and the Ninth (Infantry) Division. So far as actual practice or command goes, he has everything to learn about tanks. His compensating assets: a proved talent for vigorous command, a capacity for letting qualified subordinates use their brains and experience, constructive disrespect for red tape...
Into the wooded, gullied fields around Polly Ray Mountain at Fort Bragg, N.C., 18,000 troops of the Ninth Division moved for maneuvers. Everything was set for a nice little black & white wargame. Infantrymen and artillerymen were to attack the hill. The defenders were Lieut. Colonel John Elliott Wood's 41st Engineers, the first regiment of Negro engineers in the new Army...
Often the dark stalwarts of the 41st sing while marching at attention. In regimental reviews, they like to sweep past at the double-quick, their faces ashine with sweat and pride. As working engineers, they built three swimming pools, also six concrete bomb shelters for artillery observers at Fort Bragg. They also created a 25-acre lake and use it for landing exercises and practice in assault boats. A kibitzer at this drill last week was New York's Congressman (and Reserve Colonel) Hamilton Fish Jr., who was an officer in a Negro regiment in World...
Negroes can see at night far better than white men. This "startling find" has been reported by two scientists at Fort Bragg...