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...little Cub plane with Lieut. Colonel Thomas W. Casey as observer strayed a bit and came down on a strange beach...
...came back to Grand Rapids as a cub reporter on the Herald...
...reach the Patton story I jeeped from Paris to the Group, flew a Piper Cub to one airfield, flew a Stinson to another, slept on the floor, saw Patton, wrote the piece riddled by censorship rules, slept on the floor, jeeped to the XII Corps Headquarters, slept on the floor, changed jeeps for a 125-mile ride through spearhead territory, slept on the floor, jeeped back to Corps Headquarters through towns that exactly 20 minutes later were reoccupied by 5,000 Germans in a moving pocket, reached Corps Headquarters to find I had only 35 minutes in which to write...
...champagne factory, which a general commandeered next day after tasting some of my loot, was waved at by bevies of German civilians as if they were happy at being liberated, saw at least 5,000 German prisoners and flew back from Corps Headquarters in weather so rough the Piper Cub pilot's sweat visibly rolled down his neck, while I counted the wings to see if they added up to two. When we 'crabbed in' for a landing the pilot said: 'If you ever have a rougher flight you'll never write about...
...collecting pets. It was a tradition. The late Major General Orde C. Wingate had taken a cow buffalo along on his raids, once restored its health with precious brandy. Brigadier "Mad Mike" Calvert's favorite was an elephant named Flossie. In Arakan an officer keeps a bear cub...