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Submarines were chosen to act as beacons in the North African landing. We took position about ten miles from Oran to shine lights and guide the invasion fleet. It was a very easy job. Then we pushed north, off the Balearic Islands. One afternoon, creeping toward "Gib," my officer of the watch sighted what he thought was a distant aircraft carrier. On a closer look it turned out to be a submarine. My orders were like everyone else's: if you see a German U-boat, fire everything you have got. We had six torpedoes; we fired...
Just a list of the cities we have visited: Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakech, Oran, Meknes, Oudjda, Algiers, Fez. We have spent a night in a Sultan's palace at Fez, we have visited the headquarters of the Foreign Legion in Sidi-bel Abbes . . . we have seen the Casbah in Algiers. . . . Three gals, two others and myself, drove all across North Africa from Casablanca to Bizerte. From Bizerte we flew over to Sicily. Bizerte was an appalling sight. ... At night ... the moon shines down on empty shells of white buildings with black windows...
...after the Government had fled-was one of the last four American correspondents to escape. Still another new writer (World Battlefronts) was sent to London by the A.P. just in time to cover the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, later transferred to the New York Herald Tribune, reached Oran three days after the A.E.F. landed in North Africa. He covered the Casablanca conference, was with our troops when they went into action at Medjez-el-Bab, Gafsa, El Guettar and Fondouk, then marched into Tunis with the British First Army...
...Cliff's mother will not try to keep him down on the Elmwood farm, now that he has seen Oran. Until he is old enough to start all over again in the Army, ex-Airman Wherley has picked his job: inspector of Marauders in Glenn Martin's Omaha plant...
...party in 1940 that the Charlotte doctors wanted to form an Army unit. The unit was authorized in December, went on active duty at Fort Bragg in March 1942, left for England Aug. 6, scrambled ashore in Africa Nov. 7 and was fully set up about ten miles from Oran a few days later. At Oran, the unit handled 2,027 patients...