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...creeping infiltration by night, until the Bougainville base was finally secured. By last week they were either veterans or casualties of the jungle war and white troops were no longer reluctant to serve beside them. Proudest of their record is Major General Raymond G. Lehman, of Sleepy Eye, Minn., commander of the 93rd, who has been a Regular Army officer since 1917 and commands Negro troops because he likes to lead them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Tan Yanks | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

Sleepy Eye. Near Sleepy Eye, Minn., Truck Driver Louis Melzer was recovering nicely from multiple arm-and-leg fractures, after being knocked out in a collision, laid out on the highway by a good Samaritan, run over by a passerby, backed over by the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 10, 1944 | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

Room 301 in St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minn, has light-cream walls and a southeast-corner view, the patient noted. To the Clinic staff, even to his brisk, dark-haired Nurse Mary Conway, the patient was just another one of the 100,000 who come to Mayo's each year. But to Franklin Roosevelt, anxiously reading the wired reports, the man in 301 was much more important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Assistant President | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

Wheeze. In a Fort Snelling, Minn, medical center, a doctor wandered among unclothed men - some newly inducted, others newly slated for overseas - examined one briefly, told him he had asthma, was 4-F. Wheezed the man: "I've been in the Army 15 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 6, 1944 | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...spring of 1942, the War Department hurriedly bought 21,000 acres of rich farmland at Rosemount, Minn. Farmers were hustled off ("Don't you know there's a war on?") before they could harvest crops already planted. In came the Du Pont Co. with a big job: to build and operate the DPC's $69,000,000 Gopher Ordnance Works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSITION: The First | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

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