Word: regimentations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last remaining member of last year's officer complement, was transferred to Camp Beale, Cal., last week. Captain Marshall came here last spring as Mil Sci 1 instructor; he has since instructed Mil Sci 3 and 4, served as detachment commander, and as acting adjutant and executive of the Regiment. He joins 1st Lts. Jim Gibbons '41, Joe Ambrose '42 and Jim Hays '42 in the 13th Armored Division at Beale...
Appointed adjutant and acting executive of the Regiment was Captain Nelson Miles; Captain William Magruder becomes detachment commander...
Tomorrow the last eighteen horses stationed with the Harvard Regiment will leave for Maynard, Mass., to the MP detachment stationed there. They will be ridden there by cadets with riding passes. The first group of twenty-eight departed for the remount station, Fort Royal, Virginia, last Monday...
Honor and Horror. Rifleman Dodd, cut off from his regiment in Portugal, spent the winter in the scorched-earth portion of that country which Wellington had left to the French and the Portuguese guerrillas. He could be shocked (as the reader will be) by the cruelty of his guerrilla comrades toward prisoners and the wounded, but the sight and the infliction of death never so much as put a pleat in his brain. The hungry French gratefully killed stray dogs, and roasted rats; Dodd as gratefully subsisted on raw horse liver and roast mule...
...ingenious service at the hands of Spanish mountaineers. More properly, the mountainers served the gun: its dignity and its power coalesced half-hearted and wrangling bandits into an army which swelled from two to ten thousand. This armv's third leader, a mountain boy, destroyed a crack French regiment with the gun. He was nudging to pieces a fortress wall ten feet thick when another 18-pounder put an end to the gun and thawed to nothing the ill-disciplined army it had held together. But by that time the brutal nobility of a machine had made its dent...