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...Boston, was a partner in the law firm of Gaston, Snow, Hunt, Rice, and Boyd, and held-several insurance executive posts. Born in Paris, Colonel Howard attended Groton School, came to Harvard, and while he was finishing Law School, the war broke out. As a member of the Harvard Regiment, he was commissioned a captain in the Infantry and sent to France in a machine-gun outfit. The Army issued him his discharge papers in February...
...early morning a German plane bombed the regiment, dispersed for two hours' sleep in the fields. Three wounded men were sent to the rear; the regiment marched on. By 6 a.m. Lieut. Colonel Earl Taylor's 3rd Battalion was near the bridge on the Sele...
German artillery raked the battalion the rest of the day. A shell from a German 88 hit a company commander pointblank, hurled his body 60 feet. But the men clung to the hills by the bridge, awaiting reinforcements. They did not come. The regiment was trapped. That morning, while the Americans attacked toward the bridge, the Germans had taken a town far to the rear. The enemy had evidently watched the regiment's advance the night before, had skillfully moved in behind it. Parts of an armored division and a motorized division, outnumbering the Americans, had sheared through...
...dusk two battalions with their artillery had been completely cut off, and another was in danger. One battalion, sadly thinned, was pulled back from the hills by the Sele. All were grouped in close defensive rings. The 105-mm. guns were turned around, faced the way the regiment had marched the night before. Only 15 rounds remained for each gun, and they were silent...
...regiment had fought off day attacks. It had been sleepless for two nights. Now it had not only hope but a deep and bitter hatred. There were a great many Americans killed and wounded when the Germans had the upper hand. There were dead men who had been old buddies of the survivors, who had trained with them at home and fought successfully with them in Sicily. There is still fierce fighting for this bridgehead, but this regiment will yet avenge its dead...