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...years of age, a graduate of West Point in the class of 1827, and former Lieutenant Colonel of the 4th United States Infantry. A man of fine appearance and of pronounced patriotism, Gabriel Rains was at heart a scientist, and was more interested in explosives than in field command. In 1840, while campaigning against the Seminole Indians, he first had experimented with booby-traps. On the retreat from Yorktown he had planted several of these in the way of the Federals and thereby had delayed somewhat the pursuit. He was gratified, but some of his superiors were convinced that these...
Orders to report will come to ERC men through the War Service Information Bureau some time next week, Elliott Perkins '23, head of the Bureau, announced yesterday. The office will receive the letters from the First Service Command and will distribute them to students, mailing them home to men who leave their addresses before they...
...High Command, announcing virtual completion of the bloody conquest in the Stalingrad death pocket, said Russian assault forces had slaughtered 10,000 Germans...
Previously Lieut. Colonel Evans F. Carlson, under whom Roosevelt served as second in command, had received a like decoration. For the Roosevelt family Jimmy's was the first medal of the war: a second was won by Lieut. Colonel Elliott, commander of a photographic unit in North Africa, who received the D.F.C. last month (TIME...
...Major General George S. Patton-hard as carborundum and sometimes twice as rough-went his second D.S.M. last week, to be added to one of the finest collections of ribbons in the Army. He got it for distinguished service in the capture of Casablanca, where he was in command...