Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgium, in a sector where the Allies had stood for nearly three months. On Sunday a column of 15 to 20 Nazi Tiger tanks, spearheading the new German drive, cut off a U.S. First Army unit which had only light weapons to defend itself. The Americans were quickly overcome; 143 were herded into a field with a few others the Germans had captured earlier. The Germans took away the prisoners' watches and any other possessions they fancied...
Their weapons are rifles, carbines, tommy guns, automatic pistols, hand grenades, and a simple antitank rifle called the Panzerfaust ("tank fist"). The oldsters train in their spare time, on Sundays and in the evenings; the youngsters, mainly Hitler-Youth, get intensive four-day courses at special camps. Basic unit of the Volkssturm is the four-company battalion, but brigades and divisions may be activated when it becomes capable of disposing bigger units. It has a core of experienced officers, some of them fanatical Nazis...
Capt. Nelson T. Hoadley, USA, instructor of Military Science and Tactics-at the University, will leave sometime during the Christmas vacation for a new post at an Italian Prisoner of War camp. He will be succeeded by Capt. William L. Lomax, USA, who came here from the ASTP unit at Boston University...
...colored film of the pre-war Army ROTC unit of over 500 men was shown...
Bleary-eyed, but confident of unsets all around, we sit dreaming of a white Christmas. Yes, before this literary mess again hits print old Santa will have come and gone. Trees are scattered round the unit here and there, but "Mitch's" individual little tree seems to take top honors. A desk job, "Mich" is proud of his spirit...