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...would do no good, said Prime Minister King, to send Canada's current batch of zombies overseas because out of the 68,000 on hand, only 8,000 would make good infantrymen without months of training. Then he hit at what he called a "false impression": that most zombies are French Canadians. "Only 23,000 are from . . . Quebec and only 25,000 ... are French-speaking...
...paraded "somewhere in Belgium" last week. While silk-hatted Belgian functionaries looked on, Britain's Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery pinned decorations on 60 Canadian officers and men. Over a loudspeaker, "Monty" said that the victory in the Battle of the Scheldt Estuary, fought largely by Canadian infantrymen, was "magnificent." He doubted that any other troops could have accomplished...
Actually, the Japs had stiffened before their new troops ever met MacArthur's infantrymen. Major General Frederick Irving's 24th Division, which had drawn one of the biggest shares of the fighting, won the little village of Cavite after a bayonet charge-a rare expedient for firepower-conscious U.S. soldiers. Pressing on, the 24th had a hard tussle before Carigara. It took the town after four days, when the Japs suddenly pulled...
Five hours after the first wave of Army infantrymen dashed across the shell-pocked beaches, General MacArthur and his party filed down a ladder from the Nashville's deck into a landing barge. With him were men who had left Corregidor with him 31 months ago, like his Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Richard K. Sutherland; men who had been sent out later to hib command, like his air chief, Lieut. General George C. Kenney; men who were going back to their homeland, like President Sergio Osmeña of the Philippine Commonwealth. There was-one notable absentee: Manuel...
...Canadians landed near Hoofdplaat, east of Breskens, and started fighting their way south to link hands with their comrades edging up from the Leopold Canal. Even this was not enough. The Nazi defenders-20,000 desperate and skillful infantrymen, marines, naval artillerymen, SS antitank specialists and paratroops-stood their ground along the countless dikes...