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...First. On Nov. 8, 1942, U.S. armed forces began the long, bloody drive that was to end in the heart of Germany. On that day the ist Infantry Division landed at French-held Oran. Behind the ist was a great record. In World War I the entire ist had won the green and red French fourragere which the outfit still wears proudly, looped over the left shoulder...
Under dashing Major General Terry Allen (now commander of the crack 104th Timberwolf Division), the ist took Oran and fought across Algeria. It ran into its first hard going in Tunisia, and learned there the lesson all fighting men learn: that the last touch of fighting polish is won only in battle against a stubborn...
JOSEPH R. GRUBB JR. ist Lieutenant, Infantry Fort Benning...
...north of the island the ist and 6th Marine Divisions, for once handling the easy end of the job, were clearing out scattered resistance and would soon be able to help in the south. The 27th Division (onetime New York National Guard) had come ashore for another crack at the Japs. The power was being built...
...Ist das nicht ein schones Schwein?" cried the barmaid in the Nazi beer garden, when a pig fell into the beautiful blue Danube (which was muddy-brown) and floated on a board past the ancient German city of Regensburg. "Ja, das ist ein schönes Schwein!" wailed the hungry, war-worn customers. Even the portly mayor of Regensburg forgot his civic dignity, flopped on his belly, and lost his umbrella trying to hook the pig. "Swim after it, drag it ashore-and report to me!" roared Nazi Gauleiter Stoltz. But the pig was deaf to Hitlerism. It only stepped...