Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vest-Poclcet Force. The Land Forces of the Adriatic are actually a small unit of British Commando troops, paratroops and special service forces under command of a British Army officer. It was organized formally about four months ago and placed under the Allied Balkan Air Force. It is based in Italy and works closely with the navy and air force in order to move back & forth across the Adriatic. Its first major mission was July 29, an attack on the Albanian coast, and it now operates-necessarily thinly-over a front about 750 miles long...
More marching is in store for the Navy, as the V-12--NROTC unit will parade on Soldiers Field tomorrow at 2:45 o'clock, just before the game. The army undergraduate unit at Harvard has also been invited to participate in these ceremonies
Lieutenant Torbert H. Macdonald '40, USNR, is back home after 17 months of sea duty, with a record that has won him the Silver Star, the Atlantic and Pacific Theatre ribbons, and a Presidential Unit Citation, the only one given to a PT squadron...
...enemy columns began converging on Mons, striking the tail of our advanced armored unit in that city. The armor was soon cut off and encircled and the commander asked the infantry, which was following for mopping-up, to hurry...
...When a U.S. artillery unit let go with a practice salvo in England, 30 ewes in a neighboring field had miscarriages. The Claims Office figured that two-thirds of the offspring would have had a normal life span. Award: the value of 20 sheep...