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...Brigadier Patrick Sholto Douglas, the deposed commander of the Tanganyika Rifles, the commandos burst through the main gate and began hurling "Thunder Flashes"-noisy firecrackers used in training to simulate mass attack. Douglas shouted in Swahili for the 800 mutineers to surrender. When they refused, the commandos slammed a 3.5-in. bazooka rocket through the barracks, blasting out windows and peeling back most of the roof. Three Riflemen were killed and 20 wounded, while 400 were captured. The rest, many in pajamas or underwear, headed for the bush. Julius Nyerere was back in power however tentatively. But his country would...
...month-old story, finally released by the censor last week, suggested how much the Allies tried to do at Anzio with how little. The story, by the Montreal Star's Sholto Watt, described the exploits of a unique unit of mixed Canadian and U.S. troops, known unfavorably to the Germans as the men "with funny pants and dirty faces...
...Veteran. The British approved him. Blunt as a hammer, he remarked to Sir Sholto Douglas, then chief of the Fighter Command: "Sir Sholto, I hear you are a son-of-a-bitch and that I'm not going to get along with you at all. Is that right?" They got along like a thumb and a first finger. At a military demonstration he sat next to King George for half an hour, exchanged only a how-do-you-do and a goodby. Spaatz's verdict on the equally reserved King of England: "A wonderful man." When the Queen...
Said Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas, handing them over to Major General Carl M. Spaatz: "Goodby and thank you Eagle Squadrons 71, 121, 133 of the Fighter Command, and good hunting to you." At week's end they were off on their first raid over France wearing U.S. Army wings. Four Focke-Wulf 190s crashed under their guns...
...husband. Sir Archibald Sinclair, Britain's Air Secretary, beamed at little Ivan Maisky, the Soviet Union's bearded Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, the most popular foreigner in England. Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, grim as always, and Air Marshal Sir William Sholto Douglas had come to acknowledge a Soviet tribute to the R.A.F...