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...thousand dollars were still left in the fund, and lumber and materials for a house (with electric lights and a bathroom) were on order. Powell's Furniture Store of Inman had promised to furnish the front room. The First Baptist Church of Landrum had donated a Bible, the Orange Crush Co. a mule, and other gifts were still coming in-an electric pump, fertilizer, pecan trees, dishes...
When the U.S. felt strong enough to move into the Aleutians, Major General Eugene M. Landrum was picked to do the moving. In difficult terrain and weather and within easy bombing range of Kiska, he built strong bases in the Andreanof Islands. For this Gene Landrum won the Army's D.S.M. His next assignment was driving the Japs out of Attu. For vigorous execution of a soundly planned offensive, the Navy last week added its D.S.M...
This ex-private and son of a Confederate soldier was unmoved by his rare double honor. At his headquarters after the presentation, whittling a stick as usual and staring at the impenetrable Aleutian fog, stocky, deep-jowled Gene Landrum commented: "You know, this is a hell of a place for a Florida...
...Battle of Attu, Alaska Scouts met Japs for the first time: one was killed, another wounded. But on most missions they operate separately from the Army. One result is that they do not care much about being around people. A Scout went in to see Major General Eugene M. Landrum after a long absence alone in the mountains. The General wondered if the Scout wanted a rest. "No, sir," he said, "I'll get some rations and head back to the mountains this afternoon...
...barges, converted yachts, tugs and a codfish schooner, heavily convoyed by naval craft, waddled up to one of the treeless humps which stick out of the northern sea, emptied men and materiel into lighters and landing boats. Under command of 41-year-old Florida-born Brigadier General Eugene M. Landrum they rolled shoreward through the surf. Caught by surprise or too harassed to do anything about it, the Japanese did not raise a finger. Ten days later U.S. engineers had built an airdrome big enough to accommodate air transports. Fighting planes were taking off from it and escorting bombers westward...