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Bonnie A. Little was a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps at the time of his death, although his new commission had not caught up with him. Eyewitness accounts relayed back to his home in Geneva tell how Captain Little led his platoon of amphibious tractors onto the beach in the first assault wave. All men in his tractor were killed except him before the landing was made. Singlehanded, Little pushed on to wipe out a Japanese machine-gun position before he was fatally wounded...
...rarely without a pipe in his mouth, a pencil in his hand and an idea for "a better way" to do whatever is being done. At home, in peacetime, he relaxed by working in a cellar machine shop building boats, driving a tractor on his New Hampshire farm. Now much too busy to indulge his various hobbies, he nonetheless startled his wife this winter by suddenly taking up late evening basket-weaving...
Beset by the scarcity of farm labor and machinery, Farmer Hulbert needed a tractor. When Twin Falls County auctioned off a secondhand 1940 International (list price: $1,200), which had been used for weed control, he gladly made the winning bid of $1,050. As he was about to collect his prize the OPA tapped him on the shoulder, and said: if you pay a penny more than the OPA ceiling price of $723.56 for this model you will be guilty of violating the Price Control Act of 1942. Alarmed, Farmer Hulbert forthwith ceased and desisted. Promptly Twin Falls County...
Twin Falls County prepared an appeal to Idaho's Supreme Court. Farmer Hulbert went serenely about his spring chores. Having deposited $1,050 with the district court, he has been using the tractor all through the legal fight...
...plaque is in memory of 'the valiant dead and 68 missing' of an amphibious tractor battalion. Another commemorates the heroism of the officers and men of the Special Weapons Unit...