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...Irene Kelly, Pittsburgh widow, has a son in Italy: Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, 23, the "one-man blitz" who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for mowing down some 40 Nazis. In Pittsburgh, Mrs. Kelly has two sons-Howard, 16, Danny, 11. Last week Son Howard sharpened a pencil, and got in touch with Washington...
They held it by aggressive commando raids. "The force's most outstanding action was a violent diversionary raid on the town of Sessano during a night when the situation was critical in another sector." So violent was the diversion that it "relieved pressure on the threatened area and made the Germans withdraw their main defense positions a mile or more on a long front"-but the whole job was done by only 100 face-blackened, bazooka-armed U.S.-Canadians...
...evening Major General Wingate, in command of British troops operating behind the Japanese lines in Burma, had to make a rush visit to his air commando force. A terrific tropical storm was raging at his base airstrip,* but he climbed into a Mitchell B-25 and took off. He did not arrive at his destination...
...York thinks it will. Said E. E. Conroy to a convention of National Armored Car Operators in Manhattan: The crimes will come from: 1) the present increase of juvenile delinquency; 2) the drafting of young policemen; 3) the return of ten million veterans "trained to kill," with Commando-men presenting a special menace because they are trained to kill "skillfully and soundlessly." To help get ready, announced Agent Conroy, the FBI will double enrollment at its Police Academy in Washington this summer...
...platoon sergeant he led men across the blood-dyed Rapido River three times, and three times had to pull back before overwhelming enemy strength. In combat reports Kelly is officially credited with killing at least 40 Germans. Admiring fellow infantrymen rib him as "Commando" Kelly, or "The One-Man Army...