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TIME Correspondent Will Lang was with a U.S. regiment in that sector. Many of its officers and men were Oklahomans. The regiment was one of several units ordered to march inland, seize high ground commanding a key bridge on the Sele and forestall what finally happened-the German thrust which almost split the beachhead. Said the regiment's Colonel, explaining the orders to his battalion officers: "It's pretty far inland and we don't know exactly what the enemy's got in that area. But it must be urgent to get that high ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Shape of Hell | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...Trick. At sundown the regiment set off. As the soldiers trudged through a moonlit town, a civilian in a long coat gestured and jabbered something about Germans. The soldiers paid no attention. But they remembered later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Shape of Hell | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...British Army's bright young men. Strong's receding chin and horn-rimmed glasses make him look like an American caricature of an Englishman. He is a leading authority on the German Army, an able military thinker. At work he religiously wears the tartan trousers of his regiment, the Royal Scots Fusiliers; he has been accused of wearing plaid pajamas. His deputy: U.S. Colonel Thomas E. Roderick, onetime executive officer of the U.S. War Department's G-2 in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: Ike's Way | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...campaigning this year, fired both barrels at the New Deal. Sample: "There is now being waged in this country an internal political, economic and social revolution which would change the form of our government to an absolute totalitarian state of communism or national socialism. They would destroy individual enterprise, regiment and socialize the people, nullify the Constitution and destroy the states. . . . For my part I will fight for States' rights as long as I breathe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyes on Mississippi | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

Music both sweet and hot will be provided by the NTS (Communications) Band under the direction of Ensign J. W. Oliver. To the Rounders around the school, this band is familiar, as it is the one organized by men of the regiment to play for the weekly dances at Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications to Provide 'Swing and Sing' Tuesday | 8/13/1943 | See Source »

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