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...left home at 16 to be educated as a civil engineer, turned up again at 20 as manager of a dilapidated hotel in Grafton, Ohio, left town trailing a cloud of debts. In the confusion of wartime mobilization, he was made a colonel at 23, organized the 7th Michigan Cavalry, later fought heroically under General Custer at Gettysburg...
Tigers & Sheepishness. Psywar works on friend and foe alike. During a tough battle in the Mekong Delta recently, local girls were sent aloft at night to warn the V.C. that they were "facing a unit that never loses, the 7th Division." Recalls an American psywar expert: "It may not have worried the guerrillas, but it turned the South Vietnamese troops into tigers...
...where the artist would do the final oil painting from life. Ceiling zero, visibility less than 100 yards, torrential rains. Nevertheless, the travelers negotiated a ride aboard an Army Caribou. Back on location, Koerner set up his easel on the exposed hill occupied by the 1st Battalion of the 7th Division, an outfit that would soon be in action. Mused Koerner later: "You think that war brutalizes people, but the soldiers were so kind to each other...
Frank Sulloway (7th), Bruce Jones (9th), and Tim McLoone (10th) rounded out the scoring for Harvard...
Died. General Sir George Watkin Eben James Erskine, 66, armor-plated British tankman who won the D.S.O. after Nazi General Erwin Rommel's smashing defeat at El Alamein, later led the famed "Desert Rats" (7th Armored Division) in North Africa, Sicily and Normandy, in postwar years fought his last campaign (1953-55) against Kenya's Mau Mau; of heart disease; in South Cheriton, England...