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DIED. HENRY MUCCI, 88, no-nonsense World War II Army colonel who rescued 513 survivors of the brutal Bataan death march; in Melbourne, Florida. After hearing reports of Japanese atrocities against Allied prisoners in the Philippines, the tough-talking, pipe-smoking Mucci led his Rangers 25 miles behind enemy lines and liberated the emaciated prisoners at Cabanatuan...
Bernard Champagne and Richard Brachu of St. Anselm's College won the Harvard Invitational Debate Tournament Saturday night. In the final round they defeated Dallas Mucci and Jeanette Moorhead of Eastern Nazarene...
...Navy lieutenant commander and onetime cinemactor (The Little Colonel with Shirley Temple, The Scarlet Empress with Marlene Dietrich). In his campaign, Republican Lodge and his wife, onetime dancer Francesca Braggiotti, invaded Bridgeport's Italian district making speeches in Italian, while his opponent, Ranger hero Colonel Henry Andrew Mucci, a second-generation Italian, spoke only English. Lodge will fill the seat occupied for two terms by retiring Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce...
...Mucci's Rangers. The rescued men learned then who their deliverers were. They were from the Sixth Army of Lieut. General Walter Krueger, who had moved swiftly south from Lingayen Gulf. Filipino guerrillas had reported the location of their camp, which was 25 miles inside the Jap lines on the Sixth's left flank. The men who had rescued them were 286 Filipinos and 121 picked men of the U.S. 6th Ranger Battalion. The squat, handsome man wearing a lieutenant colonel's insignia and a shoulder holster over his sweat-stained shirt was Henry Andrew Mucci...
...Mucci's men were a tough breed. Formerly they had been a pack field artillery unit whom Mucci himself had trained as combat troops two years ago in New Guinea. Mucci was a West Pointer, son of a Bridgeport, Conn, horse dealer. In command of his Filipinos: Major Robert Lapham, who had been fighting with the guerrillas since before the fall of Corregidor. Mucci's force had suffered some casualties: three wounded, 27 killed...