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...dead were avenged. At the height of the German threat, warships, including two British battleships (Warspite, Valiant), shelled the Nazi positions. Allied air forces threw many hundreds of planes at the same positions, flew 2,000 sorties in one day. At the extreme crisis, artillerymen under Lieut. Colonel Hal Muldrow, one of the many Oklahomans, were the only forces facing German tanks and infantrymen. Muldrow stripped his gun crews, gave them rifles and machine guns. The German spearhead was stopped, enveloped, thrown back. Near the northern end of the bridgehead the British stopped a German advance, seized the town...
...Comic Jack Pepper substituting for Jerry Colonna) "resting" from camp shows by bobbing up in hospitals, dropping in on ack-ack crews, sloshing across rainswept heaths to entertain soldiers on maneuvers. Hope's gags got around so fast he had to keep changing them, and he and Scriptwriter Hal Block ground out new ones in bumpy transit, or in hotel rooms long past midnight...
...awarded by the Commanding Officer of the Chaplain School, Colonel William D. Cleary, who will give one diploma to each of the 16 section leaders of the class in behalf of the members of his section. Chaplain (1st Lieutenant) Lester P. White will offer the Invocation and Chaplain (Major) Hal C. Keller will pronounce the blessing. Music will be provided by the 241st Coast Artillery band...
...Africa to the Gold Coast port of Goonegou will go Hal Radike of J. It is reported in the Bunje World Atlas that the women of this section have the most succulent lips of any African mammy...
Harvard's coaches, the ones that are left, are going to continue helping out with the uniformed students' athletic programs, in addition to their peacetime tasks. Hal Ulen and Frant Vaughn, for example, have done all the swimming instruction so far, and expect to in the future. Henry Lamar has been working with the ASTU's sports program. And so on down the line. Ensign Adkins and his four Chief Specialists will work with the College coaching staff on the V-12ers physical training...