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...Allen-why don't you?" Allen brazenly replied. He got his certificate, and as a temporary major he led a battalion of the goth Division into battle at St. Mihiel and Aincreville, won a citation and a Silver Star "for distinguished and exceptional gallantry," got a bullet through the jaw and mouth...
...began its 17th month of World War II. In terms of time (but not in terms of the imminence of victory) it was at the Battle of St. Mihiel of World War I. It was also far enough along to let the Army Service Forces (formerly Services of Supply) release a few figures on its performance in logistics in the first twelve months...
...Field Artillery's rough-&-tumble Battery D. He was shy, reserved, wore big shell-rimmed glasses: to his pugnacious Irish privates he looked like something of a milquetoast. At the start he was perhaps the most unpopular captain in France. But he led his men doggedly through St. Mihiel and the Argonne, spiked a panic when German artillery once drew a bead on his battery, lost only one soldier killed and one wounded, was promoted to major. On the ship back from France his men took a cut out of all crap games, bought him a monstrous loving...
Hero of Kotelnikov and commander in the field under Yeremenko is thickset, deep-dimpled Lieut. General Rodion Ya-kovlievich Malinovsky, 44. Odessa-born, he joined the army when he was a boy, fought in France (Amiens, St. Mihiel) with a Russian infantry brigade alongside Americans and Britons. "I shall never forget the British," he says. "Shaving in the darkest days, pipes perpetually between their teeth, they never moved faster than a walk whether in advance or retreat." In this war he won the Order of Lenin for helping to defeat Colonel General Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist during...
...down a revolt in Cuba in 1912, led the occupation of Vera Cruz in 1914. He commanded the Second Division (a regular Army brigade and the 4th Brigade of Marines) from late July 1918 to August 1919. Under him the division captured 3,300 prisoners in the St. Mihiel offensive of Sept. 12-15, broke the Hindenburg Line in the stubborn Blanc Mont sector, was in the forefront of the battle in the last days of the Meuse-Argonne offensive. The division captured 12,026 prisoners altogether (about one-fourth of all captures by U.S. forces), suffered 24,429 casualties...