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...combat-loaded, i.e., "backwards," kitchen gear put aboard first because it probably would be needed last; assault vehicles loaded last so they would be on top and could be spewed out onto the grey ships. On the quay stood a few tight knots of women. The men were the ist Provisional Marine Brigade, well-trained and well-equipped but fewer than 5,000 strong. Their commander told them: "There will be casualties among you." At week's end, heavily convoyed, the expedition departed...
Brigadier General Edward A. Craig, 54, assistant commander of the ist Marine Division, will soon be en route to the Far East from San Diego. Craig, who will lead the Marine ground units last week placed under MacArthur's command, served ably in the Bougainville, Guam and Marianas campaigns during World War II, was decorated for capturing Mount Suribachi, the "roof of Iwo Jima...
Christian Vogel, pale and tired, climbed the stairs to his fourth-floor flat in Offenbach, an industrial suburb of Frankfurt. Silently he tossed a blue envelope on the table. His seven-year-old daughter looked puzzled. "Was ist los, Mutti?" she asked. Said her mother: "Dein Vater ist entlassen" (Your father is fired...
...Buzzard. It was a desk job and Douglas stood it as long as he could. But he kept pestering the brass for a chance to get into the fighting. His chance came when the ist Division charged ashore at Peleliu. On the second savage day, the adjutant of the 5th Marines was wounded; back to the ships went the message: "If that old white-haired buzzard wants to get in some fighting, let him come ashore." Douglas stayed with the 5th through some of the bloodiest days of the Pacific campaign, won a Bronze Star for carrying ammunition...
Died. Henry Bucknall Betterton, ist Baron Rushcliffe, 77, longtime British civil servant, three times Minister of Labor between 1923 and 1934; near Salford, England...