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...Stars & Stripes incident [has] brutally exposed one open sore in the American fighting man," cabled TIME Correspondent Will Lang last week: "He is the most homesick soldier in the world...
Said Correspondent Lang: "I have seen the American combat soldier fighting in Tunisia and Italy. When he is hard pressed but skillfully led, he is courageous, tough, resourceful. He is a damn good soldier. But when he is asked why he is fighting he usually has little to say. He doesn't know. All he wants is to finish service and get home as soon as possible...
...wounded. But this is the toughest position I've ever had to take. Baldy's almost straight up. There's one trail but that's mined. . . ." Then he fell asleep. The next day his companies took Old Baldy and he said to TIME Correspondent Will Lang: ''My companies are thinned down, Will. I should have reinforcements before I make any more commitments. We're going to need some strength to hold...
Gradually the troopship drew away and at the end of the jetty that white-clad figure started Auld Lang Syne. As the gap grew, just snatches of the words came to us, and finally, just a picture of that solitary figure in white waving to us, and we swear she was still singing. We may forget many things of this war, but never the songs of Durban's lady in white. (From a magazine published on board a British troopship en route to India some time...
...Sergeant Jack Gibson, last stationed at Foggia, Italy, and she has two sons and one daughter in the South African Army. She has sung goodby to all of them, watching their ships move out of sight over the bar to the tune of her favorite closing number, Auld Lang Syne...