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Exactly what had happened, no one in Geetingsville knew. Both the War Department in Washington and ETO headquarters in Frankfurt refused to divulge the facts of Bobby's crime...
...close reader of TIME since . . . '39, I've learned in the ETO three things that some of you seem to overlook: 1) Not one in ten soldiers ever sees a foxhole. 2) Damn few "give" their lives. Except in that million-in-one Kamikaze case, the average G.I. merely takes unwillingly the first step to make it available. The volition is usually some nervous reaction such as fear, impatience, confusion. 3) In battle a lot of young men learn for the first time that young men can, do and, under the circumstances, are likely to die. That thought...
General Patton's Third Army, which looked good racing across the battlefronts of Europe, looked just as good last week on the playing fields. In Nämnberg's vast stadium, the Third Army marched away with the ETO track & field championships. Best performance of the day was Corporal Horace Mamala's 10.7 for 100 meters, a new ETO mark...
...Charles Horn of Los Angeles landed in the U.S. after three months in Europe with the 86th ("Blackhawk") Division. He and his buddies headed for home and 30-day furloughs. This week, their furloughs over, the men of the 86th are back in camp in Oklahoma, first ETO division to get into retraining for the war in the Pacific. In a few weeks they would be shipped off again. Like thousands of other G.I.s of the Blackhawks, all Pfc. Horn had left of his 30 days was the recollection. This was how his furlough went...
Planes Over Japan. Army Air Forces are already withdrawing some of their bomber crews from ETO and retraining them in the U.S. to fly the planes which will operate against Japan. These planes are coming off the line so fast that the A.A.F. has run out of new crews to man them. Fortress and Liberator crews are learning how to fly and fight the Superforts; Mitchell and Marauder crews are being taught to fly the Army's new. powerful attack-bomber, the Douglas...