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...deal of pride in my old outfit, the 17th Airborne Division, I wish to take exception to your statement (TIME, April 2) which places the 17th in combat for the first time as part of the big push across the Rhine. The division was announced to be in General Patton's Third Army in January and was part of the action which reduced the Bulge in Belgium. I will admit that it was the 17th's first airborne combat...
...Nazi looters, will keep courts and lawyers busy for years after the war. The U.S. Government got a relatively simple taste of the problem last week when it tried to figure out what to do with a hoard of gold, foreign currency and art treasures captured by General Patton's Third Army in a German salt mine (TIME, April...
Sergeant Nelson of the Guards is part fact, part fiction; part Coldstream history, part Coldstream rag-chewing. It is also the most blood-&-thunder, swashbuckling, superpatriotic book of World War II; an American equivalent might be a history of the U.S. Marine Corps written by General George S. Patton Jr., Margaret Mitchell and Fred Allen. Gerald Kersh's Coldstreamers think they are a match for anything on earth in toughness, discipline and homespun philosophy. Author Kersh thinks...
...Europe's "fluid fighting" last week, such rearguard baggage as censors, press camps and corps headquarters jumped about almost as much as the front did, or were left far behind. TIME Correspondent Sidney Olson, who interviewed Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. for last week's cover story, cabled this description of his trials & tribulations...
...reach the Patton story I jeeped from Paris to the Group, flew a Piper Cub to one airfield, flew a Stinson to another, slept on the floor, saw Patton, wrote the piece riddled by censorship rules, slept on the floor, jeeped to the XII Corps Headquarters, slept on the floor, changed jeeps for a 125-mile ride through spearhead territory, slept on the floor, jeeped back to Corps Headquarters through towns that exactly 20 minutes later were reoccupied by 5,000 Germans in a moving pocket, reached Corps Headquarters to find I had only 35 minutes in which to write...