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Japanese destroyers went right by Widhelm and Stokely-close enough for them to see Japanese grins. On the third day Stokely woke Widhelm from a sound sleep to point out a patrol plane circling for a landing, and said: "An angel's come from heaven, let's drink the rest of our water...
Actual service requirements and details about the Mountain Infantry Regiment, affecting 30 Harvard volunteers and all others interested, will be given tonight by Charles M. Dole, chairman of the National Ski Patrol System. The meeting will be held in Little Hall tonight at 7:30 o'clock, Elliot Perkins, Faculty Representative of the Armed Services, announced...
Responding to the call for additional men to join the Mountain Troops, 30 College undergraduates have registered with the War Service Information Office and will be interviewed shortly by Charles M. Dole, chairman of the National Ski Patrol System. Under the new system recently announced by the Ski Association, men accepted for service in the mountain forces may apply for voluntary induction or be drafted directly into this special Army branch without undergoing the usual prescribed training period at Fort Devens or its equivalent...
...suited for this arduous work, basing its decisions in each case on a candidate's general experience in outdoor work and any particular qualifications he may have. "Men who have lived and worked in the mountains are preferred; if they ski, so much the better," states the official Ski Patrol bulletin on this subject. However, applicants who can show exceptional fitness as raw material, although without previous outdoor experience, will be considered...
...PB2Y (patrol plane) may now be officially spoken of as the Coronado, the P-40F (fighter) the Warhawk, the SBD (dive-bomber) the Dauntless. But it was still hard to visualize a dusty, sweaty operations officer telling a pilot to "get in that Skymaster and take some food up to the boys at Buna." (Skymaster-C-54 four-engined transport...