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...have just finished reading an article in TIME [April 23] concerning the 473rd Infantry Regiment in which you referred to us as Negro troops . . . We are definitely a white unit and are getting sick & tired of being referred to as Negro troops. This letter is not being written to further racial discontent but only to get the facts straight, as we are satisfied to let the combat record of the Negroes speak for itself. . . . (PFC.) CHARLES WHITING (Ppc.) C. WEAVER (CPL.) LLOYD JOHNSON (PFC.) ROBERT WTARREN (SGT.) THOMAS TROGDON...
...TIME gladly rights the record. Dispatches from the Italian front failed to specify that the 473rd was an all-white regiment attached to the 92nd (Negro) Division...
First Cavalry. The history of the U.S. frontier is written into the record of the ist Cavalry. Its 8th Regiment was organized in 1866; part of its 7th died with Custer at Little Big Horn. For years, stationed at the century-old post of Fort Bliss, most of the ist Cavalry patrolled the Rio Grande. But the time the old noncoms remember most bitterly was the more recent one when they lost their horses...
...minute record of one of the tense and bloody battles for the Liri Valley in Italy in late 1943, it is a story told chiefly in terms of the experience of one infantry regiment - the 143rd of the 36th Division...
...narration, a high-mettled, professionally military prose, delivered with quiet irony, is repeatedly given life and reso nance by images which show what "heavy seasonal rains" look and feel like to get a truck through, what Texan "elements" in a regiment are as people, something of what eleven hundred "replacements" mean in terms of death and survival...