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...were some outstanding Negro units, but of all the Negroes in uniform (about 1,000.000), 90% were kept in rear-area service outfits. During the Battle of the Bulge, when he urgently needed reinforcements, General Eisenhower put Negro service troops through a quick combat training course, attached them in platoon strength to line companies. The experiment worked: the Negro troops, more or less unsegregated for the first time, made a good combat showing. This experience became an argument for postwar integration policy...
North Carolina presented the season's first opportunity for Coach Bruce Munro to test most of his inexperienced players. Many substitutions gave the appearance of a football game in which the old two platoon system was employed...
...village massacre, a Mau Mau gang, brandishing keen-edged pangas, set fire to native huts. But instead of panic-stricken people rushing out to be cut to bits by the attackers' arms, an alerted Home Guard opened fire, killed 21 Mau Mau. In the same area, a platoon of 20 Negro soldiers of the King's African Rifles, led by a white officer, saw a Kikuyu woman furtively carrying sacks of food into the forest. Following the woman, the soldiers engaged a gang of 100 Mau Mau in a two-hour battle in which 24 Mau Mau were...
...almost certain chorus from the state of Texas in protesting your March 9 statement that "the British" captured Von Rundstedt at Bad Tölz. General Von Rundstedt was captured at Bad Tölz, somewhat dramatically, by 2nd Lieut. Joseph E. Burke of St. Petersburg, Fla., then a platoon leader in the 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th ("Texas") Infantry Division . . . JOHN F. MORGAN Canton, Ohio...
...after the fight for Baldy started, the Chinese attacked Bunker Hill, some five miles east of Panmunjom. again with a reinforced regiment. Bunker was held by units of the glory-laden U.S. 1st Marine Division. The leathernecks had small forces on two knobs called Vegas and Reno-perhaps a platoon on each-and these units were simply overrun and wiped out. One radio message came through from a caved-in and sealed bunker: "Only seven of us are left alive-the rest have suffocated...