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Earl was teaching school when the Spanish-American War came. He enlisted with Company F, 51st Iowa Volunteers. Typhoid fever laid him low in The Presidio's hospital, San Francisco, and he missed the boat when his outfit sailed for Manila. By the time his temperature had dropped, the war was over...
...faking to the left and drawing off the defense. His left half (50th Division) took a fake from the quarterback, then plunged through center. Meanwhile, the fullback (United Kingdom's armored division) had started to the left. Quickly he doubled back, took the ball from the quarterback (51st Highlanders) and sliced through the right side of his line, between the defensive left and tackle. His guard (9th Australians) blocked the defensive halfback and a historic advance had begun...
...Forward. Under savage artillery and mortar fire the Eighth Army leveled a road across the dried river bed of the Dittaino. This was part of the "left hook." In the first were the British 78th Division (veterans of Tunisia's Long Stop Hill), the soth Northumbrians and the 51st Highlanders. Between Centuripe and Paterno they tangled in the hardest struggle of the campaign. But the men that punched forward and the men left behind broke the Etna line, tore away Catania's flank...
Across the sands of Egypt the bagpipes of the 51st Highlanders skirled. By the Hill of Jesus, by the Hill of Evil Men, military policemen in white gloves waved yellow lanterns to guide the tanks along the paths which sappers, many of whom gave their lives, had cleared through German minefields. British armor and infantry poured through...
...Coast Road. The world read with horror, two years ago, of Nazi planes strafing helpless civilians as they fled in panic along the roads of France. Along those French roads, the same 51st Highlanders who last week broke Rommel's line had fought a rear-guard action, cut to ribbons by the Stukas. Now the Scots and the dead of France were avenged. Over a wildly retreating Nazi army swooped Allied planes...