Word: langs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Will Lang spent many censored and newsless weeks with General Mark Clark's hidden Fifth Army in Africa waiting for it to jump off on the invasion. At the last minute he gave his place in the attack to Jack Belden-then rushed to the front with a reserve regiment after Belden was wounded during the first landings at Salerno...
TIME Correspondent Will Lang was with a U.S. regiment in that sector. Many of its officers and men were Oklahomans. The regiment was one of several units ordered to march inland, seize high ground commanding a key bridge on the Sele and forestall what finally happened-the German thrust which almost split the beachhead. Said the regiment's Colonel, explaining the orders to his battalion officers: "It's pretty far inland and we don't know exactly what the enemy's got in that area. But it must be urgent to get that high ground...
...reasons unknown, the Germans did not attack that night. Next morning artillery thundered in the distance, a relief column appeared under German fire, and the battalion 105s spat their hoarded ammunition. Cabled Correspondent Lang...
...hands in Baker are expected on deck when they go across the footlights next Monday night with their last Smoker. It will be the last time that the Company will be together as a unit and "Auid Lang Syne" should predominate when the departing buddies are wished good sailing by those remaining for their P. G. courses here...