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...effort was to extract what troops and planes they could. When, on the seventh day, the British arrived to take the great port of Taranto, the Germans had deserted it to confused, volubly embarrassed Italians. As the British marched eastward to Brindisi on the Adriatic, they met only the rear guard of a retreating German Panzer division...
...week the Germans said that strong troop concentrations had moved on to the Yugoslav coast of the Adriatic. These reports had a ring of truth. On that coast, at its few practicable points of entry,, the Germans can hope to gain time and inflict heavy losses in a profitable rear-guard-stand. It is there, if anywhere, that they must hold a gate to their inner fortress-and fight to bar the British and Americans from a junction with the Russians...
Plans for the October 1 Commandant's Review, which will be in honor of Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald, USN, are well under way, and are being handled to a great extent by the officers headed by Regimental Commander David R. Matlack '44 and NROTC Company Commander Edward L. Wyman...
...first main job for the new board, therefore, is likely to be the Navy Day review to be held at 1100 on October 27. All schools except the V-12 Unit, which will be on leave, will form the brigade on this occasion, when Rear Admiral Theobald will again review the personnel...
...stories, they get barbiturate sedatives to quiet them and loosen their tongues. Once their story is told, most nervous cases feel relieved and, after a few days' rest at evacution hospitals, 60% are ready to go back to active duty. Many of the remaining 40% are fit for rear-line duty...