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...regiment was committed a total of 23 days on the front lines without one day of relief from the Marines whom we relieved on the morning of June 17. Your article stated that the Marine divisions had to wait for us, which is untrue. They make it a practice to attack during the latter part of the morning, thereby holding up our advance a number of mornings. Aslito airfield, "the primary objective," was taken by our regiment after the Marines had twice tried in vain. Other units of the division had the job of taking Mount Tapotchau while the Marines...
...disposal during his Moscow visit. Other U.S.-made limousines brought 38 other guests. They were bound to Spiridonovka House for a four-hour, 14-course lunch with Stalin. Stalin wore his simplest Marshal's uniform-no decorations. Churchill wore his uniform as honorary colonel of a Sussex regiment-four banks of decorations. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, U.S. Ambassador Averill Harriman, British Ambassador Archibald Clark Kerr were in mufti...
...British forces were small. They were a section of the newly formed Land Forces of the Adriatic under General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson's Mediterranean command; included paratroopers, commandos, infantrymen, engineers and an R.A.F. regiment. The two Greek guerrilla forces -E.D.E.S. and E.L.A.S. -had promised cooperation. Local commander was the 26-year-old Earl Jellicoe, son of the British commander at Jutland in World War I. Young Jellicoe went in as a major, was promoted to a lieutenant colonel four days later...
...hell on Palau for his ist Regiment-as hot a hell as Chesty has ever stepped into. Some 60% of his unit were casualties...
...Take off my watch," he told Reeder Parker, "I want you to give it to a friend of mine, a marine, too." He painfully printed on a white cigaret package the name of a 7th Regiment private first class...