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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mateur is 18 miles southwest of Bizerte and is the key to that city's western approaches. Two roads and a railroad branch out from Mateur to Bizerte. Two other roads run to Bizerte from Tunis, and one of them lies within artillery range of Mateur. With Mateur in Allied hands, Bizerte will be hard to hold...
Nazi U-boat crews still have the highest morale of any branch of the German armed forces. They are tough, hardened sailors, inured now to the discomforts and nerve-racking moments of life in the submarines. Doenitz labored to level the usual barriers between officers and men, and there have been no signs of the bitterness which contributed to a revolt of German crews in World...
Hurray for the Navy Supply Corps School (Harvard Branch)! It has been discovered in a roundabout way that student morale officers (both M and F) were busy planning social affairs, but as far as anyone could find out for a long time, their net accomplishment seemed to be the cultivation of a lovely acquaintanceship with each other. Scuttlebutt was rife on the subject of who was going to entertain whom in the very hear future when on Monday evening the matey came by to ask "All secure?" and "Are you going to the tea dance to be given...
...much more finished idiocy than it was before the actions of the Axis turned their blatherings into ashes in the mouth. Take the "Montana Mohammed," Senator Wheeler, for instance. The honorable Mr. Wheeler, who has been so tragically wrong so often, is still a member of that branch of our government charged with the ratification of treaties. And the Senator is still talking. He readily admits that he was an isolationist; in fact, he seems to be proud of the fact. Reluctantly, he admits the Japs attacked us, but, perhaps, if that man Roosevelt hadn't talked so much...
...expcted to leave shortly for overseas duty, First Sergeant Eskel D. Carlson, who left on Wednesday for Camp Davis, North Carolina to attend Anti-Aircraft Artillery Officer Candidate School, and Sergeant Robert C. Purser, Jr., who will take off on Monday to the University of Mississippi, Army Administration School, Branch 1. The Statistical School will miss them greatly. All the staff has wished them the best of luck in their new assignments. Lieutenant Ericksen was ordered to this Station from Atlantic City last October and since that time has been serving primarily as Physical Training Officer and Assistant Adjutant, plus...