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Some of the best U.S. soldiers in 1917-18 were black troops. The famed 15th Infantry (now the 369th Coast Artillery) from Harlem stayed longer under fire (191 days) than any other regiment, yielded no prisoners, gave up no ground, suffered casualties of 40%. Negro veterans still grin delightedly when they recall the "Battle of Henry Johnson," in which a pint-size onetime Red Cap from Albany, N.Y. killed, wounded and routed a party of 25 Germans singlehanded...
...thousand members of R.O.T.C. training courses will become officers in the Army this year, Major Morton Smith, F.A., adjutant of Harvard Regiment, has announced. This number is about the same as it was before the outbreak of hostilities, because the government has not appreciably enlarged the Reserve training courses, Smith added...
...flanking attacks. His artillery counterfire from Manila Bay's forts, in his own terse words, "has been effective." His ack-ack guns and runty Air Force were deadly: last week they brought down 15 Japanese planes, including two dive-bombers that mistakenly strafed their own infantry (a regiment of General Akira Nara's 65th Division) with heavy casualties. His observation that the invaders were seeking entrenched positions was evidence that General MacArthur still had the temerity and strength to counterattack...
Captain Arthur W. Wermuth, 57th Filipino Scout Regiment, has a Vandyke beard, a 45-caliber tommy gun, a Garand rifle, and an unerring eye. Fellow officers on Bataan Peninsula swear admiringly that, although thrice wounded, he has "absolutely accounted for" at least 116 Japanese dead and an inestimable number of prisoners. He dotes on lone reconnaissance patrols; for two weeks in January he spent more time behind Jap lines than in his own. How he works (according to Associated Press's Clark...
...other U.S. men's activities were so well organized. In Seattle, Leader Gene Mahoney of the Home Defense Infantry Regiment had appointed captains, majors, lieutenants with no advice from the military. In Mound City, Mo., Legionnaires were training with bow & arrow. In Omaha, stylish horsemen set themselves up as "Paul Reveres." In Louisville, Ky., the Legionnaires started to conduct a city-wide registration in competition with local authorities, were...