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...returned to school wore battle stars and three were married. Phillip, who had broken five conference records in 1943, had been a Marine lieutenant at Iwo Jima. Smiley fought in the Battle of the Bulge; 6 ft. 3 in. Guard Gene Vance had been a lieutenant in the ETO; Forward Ken Menke had been an artilleryman. The four were almost as spry as ever, and had to be, with the likes of Substitute Dwight Eddleman around (he scored a breathtaking 969 points as a senior at Centralia, Ill. High...
Reported Dr. Herbert Pollack of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, formerly the Army's chief medical consultant in the ETO: the powdered-milk-&-egg mixture, which is 50% whole protein, was fed to 92,000 liberated G.I.s, of whom 40% were suffering from severe malnutrition, and another 40% were undernourished. Only eight died (a few others were killed by kindness when sympathetic soldiers and civilians threw them indigestible foods as they rode westward from Germany). Wounded and post-operative patients, fed this same bland mixture, were up & about in a third less time than had been customary. Pollack...
...unit was established on a permanent basis in 1922 by General Pershing, and during the war they were in the ETO attached to General Eisenhower's headquarters. In the course of their overseas tour, the men were in North Africa, Sicily, England, France, Belgium, and Germany. They returned from overseas on June 15, 1945, by plane in order to play for General Eisenhower's victorious reception in Washington and New York...
...allies. The Axis powers ate while the rest of Europe starved; it's about time the tables were turned. Don't let us again be deceived by German collaboration. The average German could have taught Quisling a great deal of his own game. Ask any "doggie" from the ETO about that. Hugh McCaffrey...
...benefit of any who are hot & bothered over my article, the majority of scores of letters I have received from servicemen who were in the ETO have approved of the article...