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...Thessaly, TIME Correspondent Robert Low reported, "Communists staged their biggest operation to date. Four bands, each about 500 strong and well equipped, converged from four widely separated points in the mountains down into the town of Deskate, overran a company of Greek Army soldiers and a platoon of gendarmerie, inflicting heavy casualties, and finally captured the town. It took the Army, with all the force it could muster, three days to recapture the town, and even then they failed to encircle the bands, which retired, followed by 160 inhabitants of the town. They took with them a large stock...
Almost. Millar, an armored division platoon leader, was captured in Libya in the winter of 1941-42. For the next 20 months he was a P.W. in Italy and in Germany. Under the terms of the Geneva Convention, officer P.W.s may not be forced to work. Both in World War I and in World War II, hundreds of them worked like mad-digging hidden tunnels, forging counterfeit papers, tailoring civilian-like disguises, anything that might eventually help them escape...
...World War II Tommy learned his social and political ABCs from ABCA (the Army Bureau of Current Affairs). ABCA started after Dunkirk, when British troops had a lot of time on their hands, and needed a mental pick-me-up. Slick pamphlets crammed with hard facts were sent to platoon leaders, with orders to hold bull sessions about them. ABCA did far better than anything the U.S. devised to tell soldiers what the shooting was about...
...essence of his brief, sharp account of the storming of the Pacific island of Peleliu by the U.S. 1st Marine Division. Captain Hunt and his company of 235 men were landed on Peleliu one dawn; forty-eight hours later, only 78 of them were alive. Most of an entire platoon of his, racing to the assault, had suddenly felt the ground collapse under them, and had found themselves wallowing at the bottom of a mammoth tank-trap, while Jap machine-gunners literally ripped them apart. The other rifle platoons stormed their way onto a nearby point of the island...
...Walk in the Sun. Filming of Harry Brown's story of a U.S. platoon in action...