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...Virginia pine barrens, a soldier stood methodically thrusting copies of a neat, mimeographed pamphlet into the hands of arriving draftees. The cover bore the grape-leaf emblem of the 43rd ("Winged Victory") Division, and the first page carried a message from its commander: "You have just joined the best outfit in the Army ... I expect to see you doing your jobs as soldiers in the best division in the best Army in the world. (Signed) Kenneth F. Cramer, Major General, Commanding...
...43rd, a National Guard outfit from Connecticut, Vermont and Rhode Island, had left New England last September filled with high patriotism and thoughts of past glory (four Presidential Unit Citations, 987 Silver Stars, 75 D.S.C.s and two Congressional Medals of Honor in the Pacific area in World War II). On paper, it figured to be a good division. More than 70% of its officers had combat experience, 74% of the men were high-school graduates, 18.4% had attended college, 90% of the division was under...
...outfit famed for its toughness, leathery, rock-jawed Brigadier General Lewis Burwell Puller, U.S.M.C., is as tough as they come. In the '20s, as a young marine, he led native troops against bandits in Haiti and Nicaragua, so awed his troops with his parade-ground voice and his gallantry in battle that they named him El Tigre. By 1932, "Chesty" Puller had won two Navy Crosses and was well on his way to becoming a legend of the Corps. He served with the "Horse Marines" at Peking, with the famed 4th Marines at Shanghai in the days...
Last September, after studying railroad construction during his basic training period, Wang was made a platoon leader in an artillery unit of General Tsung Tsu-yu's army. It was a fairly well equipped outfit of between 20,000 and 30,000 men. Each company had 50 or 60 rifles with 120 rounds per rifle, ten or twelve submachine guns with 200 rounds, two 60-mm. mortars with 30 or 40 rounds, and 15 antitank grenades. Each man had four hand grenades...
...supposed to be a training outfit for the parent Brattle Hall people and started operations modestly with performances by stroking players in the Houses...