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...Fourth Marines are all that remain of the Fourth Marine Regiment which was sent from Honolulu to protect U.S. property in 1937. In four years they have become a part of Shanghai life. Each week the Settlement turns out for their parade on the Racecourse and thousands of Chinese crowd the movie theater where they hold their Sunday services...
...tell you what morale is. It is when a soldier thinks his army is the best in the world, his regiment the best in the army, his company the best in the regiment, his squad the best in the company, and that he himself is the best damn soldier-man in the outfit...
Last week the Germans announced that Panzer forces under General Rudolf Schmidt had in the course of fighting the Fourteenth Howitzer Artillery Regiment of the Fourteenth Soviet Mechanized Division, captured Jacob, son of Joseph Stalin. They were very proud of the feat, and issued pictures of the wonderful heir. But all they had was a boy with a hangdog look, who was never much...
Wearers of the Cross. In World War II De Gaulle was commander of the 507th Regiment of the Chars de Combat, drawn from the neighborhood of Metz in Lorraine. The two-barred Cross of Lorraine was a part of the badge. When General de Gaulle sought an emblem for Free France he chose the Cross of Lorraine, with the motto Honneur, Patrie. The former word is missing from Vichy-france's motto...
...surprise to President Ismet Inönü and his Government, fidgeting in Ankara, was a piece of news that came last week from Moscow. The Red Army, said the Soviet radio, had taken from officers of a German chemical regiment papers and maps containing a detailed plan of a Nazi invasion of Turkey...