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...Seventeen of the institutions will train for administrative service in foreign areas. The students, the number not specified, will be given intensified courses in history and area knowledge--geography, economics, religion, sociology and political customs, language, police science and law enforcement systems of the area to which they are eventually to be assigned. In the occupied countries these specialists will serve as assistants to senior officers now in training...
...Seventeen days out of their embarkation port, in the early subarctic dawn, crowded American troop transports raised the headlands of the bleak volcanic island. Mothered by destroyers, fleets of tank lighters nursed their way through rock-infested bays in fog so thick that a ship was blotted out 100 yards away...
...Seventeen were captured by the Japs in the Philippine campaign. Three were wounded in New Guinea. Five Air Forces generals - Tinker, Harold H. ("Pursuit") George, Ken Walker, Ramey and Asa Duncan - have been lost in action or operations against the enemy. Two other Air Forces general officers (Dargue and Wash) have been killed in operations...
Veterans of seventeen days at he NS CS (4/7.4/23, inclusive dates) every Wave feels as harrassed and harried as an S.O. or a D.O. after his ninth fogey. Those first thirteen disbursing problems with their 845 answers threatened to crush hitherto battered but unbroken spirits...
...Sergeant Eskel D Carlson will leave this station on April 27 to become a "Mr." at the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Officer Candidate School, Camp Davis, North Carolina, where after seventeen weeks of intensive study he will, we all earnestly pray, emerge a 2nd Lieutenant...