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Allen had a divisional staff to his liking. Brigadier General Teddy Roosevelt Jr. was his second in command. Third of a convivial and efficient trio was Colonel Henry B. Cheadle, commander of the famed 16th Infantry Regiment, now a brigadier general and assistant commander of another division. His personal aide was Major Kenneth Downs, a former newsman whom Allen met and adopted at a party shortly before the division sailed for Britain...
First important step in this drive was the capture of Barrafranca, a town of stone houses at the end of a narrow valley, guarded on either side by three rugged hills and many smaller ones. The veteran 1st Division's 26th Infantry Regiment was assigned to take these hills, thus opening the way into the town. With the regiment's 2nd Battalion, one of three in the action, was TIME Correspondent Jack Belden. His report, which arrived last week, is of a battle as it looks to the soldier in battle, with all its desperation, irrelevance and confusion...
Missing in Action. British Army Lieut. John David Graves, 23, son of Author Robert von Ranke Graves (Goodbye to All That); after capturing a Japanese outpost singlehanded; in Burma. In World War I, his father held the same rank in the same regiment (Royal Welch Fusiliers), was once listed as "died of wounds...
...second morning (July 11), Lieut. Colonel James Curtis was just finishing his breakfast of K rations when the telephone rang in divisional headquarters. The message said that 30 to 40 German tanks had attacked the 2nd Battalion of the division's 16th infantry regiment. That battalion held the division's right flank on a hill between Gela and the inland town of Niscemi...
...certainly have been getting a lot of changes and new activities around here for the past week and that is partly the reason I didn't write sooner. They came out with a final announcement on the REGIMENTAL BALL to be held on the 23rd of June at the Statler with liberty until 0200. . . . On July 4th the Regiment will take over the entire main deck of the POPS concert. Beer and stuff will be served at the tables as usual and with a bit of encouragement the GLEE CLUB may even give out with a few numbers. . . The Welfare...