Word: langs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Will Lang was at the front with the Fifth Army fighting its way through the snow-capped Apennines-and "Christmas was just another day." Fill Calhoun, with the Canadians nearer the Adriatic, was quartered in an ex-Fascist's home among the minefields of Ortona-a home that was elegant enough until the retreating Germans vandalized the plumbing along with the statuary...
...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...
...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...