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Those Guns. German prisoners told officers of a veteran South Carolina National Guard regiment, serving with the French, that the big guns were more terrible than the artillery they had faced at Stalingrad. Broadcasting from Italy, CBS Correspondent Eric Sevareid said...
...Gaulles were petty aristocracy, provincial squires, not well off. Papa taught philosophy. For hulking Charles, the family determined on St. Cyr, the West Point of France. Charles entered low, graduated high-in 1911. As an honor student, he had the privilege of choosing his regiment. He chose the 33rd Infantry, commanded by a Major Pétain...
...France he fought on the South Aisne, at Soissons, Belleau Wood with the famed Fifth Marine Regiment (whose jourragère he wears). For wounds received at Soissons he wears a Purple Heart...
...with a pack of hounds. (Sir Sit-well's ghost occasionally appeared at Reni-shaw, peering gloomily through the glass front door.) Another ancestor was Lord Hutchinson of Alexandria and Knock-lofty, whose father succeeded in making one of his nieces the full-salaried colonel of a crack regiment. He protested bitterly when the War Office reduced the old lady to half...
...warm, lazy Saturday afternoon, marred only by the gentle purrings of busy typewriters until Cross and Crowtner breezed up with those two young ladies in the Pontiac. For two sweet things who were merely "looking for a fellow in D-46," they certainly got to know the regiment. It must have been their "C" card...