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...Rundstedt was trying to do a big left hook to the River Meuse. There was not much there-there was damn little there-so I collected here and there, pulled in divisions and formed an army corps under that very fine American General Collins [Major General J. Lawton Collins...
...Filthy. From the European theater another two-front observer gave his opinion. Major General J. Lawton ("Joe Lightning") Collins fought in Guadalcanal and New Georgia, now commands the VII Corps on the Western Front. In a recent interview in Yank...
...night last August a mob of Negro stevedore soldiers at Fort Lawton, Wash., stormed into a barracks occupied by paroled Italian prisoners of war. The Negroes, brooding over special privileges shown the POWs, were armed with "knives, clubs, trench shovels, axes, stones." After MPs had quelled the brawl, Italian Guglielmo Olivotto was found in a gully near by, hanged by the neck and dead...
...some U.S. ports Italian prisoners do stevedore duty. In Seattle it is done in part by a Negro battalion stationed at Fort Lawton; the paroled Italians work as gardeners and orderlies in the camp. They also have long had the run of the post exchange, and for the Negro troops that, along with other privileges, was just too much. There was open bad feeling, a small scrap last week when the U.S. troops decided the Italians were getting the best of the PX's beer and cigarets...
...commanders in Lieut. General Omar Bradley's U.S. First Army. General Bradley's Army includes the V Corps, under Major General Leonard T. ("General Gee") Gerow, 1943 commander of U.S. ground forces in Britain, and the VII Corps, under crisp, enthusiastic Major General Joseph Lawton Collins, former commander of the 25th Division, which relieved the Marines on Guadalcanal.* Other commanders...