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...years ago Ridgway was not even involved in U.S. airborne training. Neither was anyone else. U.S. airborne activities began in 1940, in a shy and tentative way, with an experimental platoon of 48 men and a couple of lieutenants. There was no ready-made body of doctrine or data: in the beginning some of the best information came from the Department of Agriculture's forestry experts, who knew something about parachuting men & materials to fight forest fires...
Advancing in the Remagen bridgehead, Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army men brought the highway under artillery fire, then inched forward to machine-gun range. Thus they cut an important Nazi lateral communication line ori the east bank of the Rhine. Finally a 78th Division platoon, led by a staff sergeant, crossed the road in what one correspondent called "a gallant, old-fashioned infantry charge across 250 yards of coverless, fire-swept ground." At week's end the Yanks were astride the road along a six-mile stretch and had pushed a mile beyond...
...followed from a regimental command post in a cellar the clearing of a row of houses. Reports were pouring in. Somebody had reached the balcony at Number 6. ... Badanov's platoon had just got level with the tall grey house. . . . Someone else's assault detachment had broken into a cellar. ... Then: 'We have reached the second floor and are fighting in the corridors.' ... By morning the houses had been captured...
...Like a platoon of daring turtles, U.S. art critics stuck their necks way out last week. The extrusion occurred in Cincinnati, where Art Museum Director Walter Siple had the bright idea of showing the "Critics' Choice" in contemporary U.S. art. Result: from 57 of the nation's professional art tasters, 57 varieties of painting...
...Wash., one Arthur Admiral signed up for service in the Navy. In Pensacola, Fla., Chester O. Ensign Jr. was commissioned a Naval ensign. At Camp Beale, Calif., a new arrival was Private Kemp Beale. Fighting side by side with the Third Army, a 2nd Lieut. Patton outranked, in his platoon, a Private Eisenhower. Missing in action in Luxembourg was Chief Warrant Officer Ralph States, son of Mr. & Mrs. United States of Ridgway...