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...Stilwell, battlewise commander of the Army Ground Forces and a veteran infantryman who has six medals and four campaign ribbons but rarely wears any, admitted that there was "just one medal" he would like to wear. "I have never been able to get it," he said. "I envy the infantrymen who have. . . ." The medal: Expert Rifleman...
Bill Edwards, who left Hayti, Mo. (pop. 2,628) to fight in Europe, was on a night patrol in Huertgen Forest when a mine blew his foot off. He lay where he had fallen, keeping his mouth shut so as not to betray his comrades to German infantrymen near by. Artillery shells whistled overhead in a constant barrage. A shell fragment struck his good...
...dawn when the cavalcade began to flow into the rendezvous, a native village. There ambulances and trucks were waiting. The prisoners walked and rode between lines of curious infantrymen. They tried to be casual. They said, "Hi, Yanks," and hoped no one noticed that their voices quavered. They tried to give officers the regulation salute and to keep a soldierly bearing...
...Coconuts emptied of milk and filled with explosive, which the Japs sowed along the route of their retreat in Burma. At first overlooked by detector squads, the coconuts blew the legs off infantrymen, the wheels off vehicles. Allied troops captured a Jap ammunition dump stored with thousands of them...
Gasser to Comm Z. On his hunt for new infantrymen in Europe, General Marshall's talent-hunter Gasser will operate under the new command of Lieut. General Ben Lear (see below). The Lear and Gasser hunting ground will be Major General John C. H. Lee's behind-the-front Service Forces command, known locally as "Comm Z" (Army slang for communications zone...