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...point, because you've quit thinking. And that's what has happened to the Jerry. He's quit thinking, and I wouldn't mind telling TIME that I'll take on a company of young, fresh, inexperienced Hitler -zealots and finish them with my platoon quicker than you can get a squad of this 'demoralized' kind blasted...
...hundreds of thousands of men, machines, guns. Ike's Nature. The master of this titanic effort is a generally affable, obviously brainy, 53-year-old Midwestern American. As a professional soldier he is distinctly the command-and-staff rather than the warrior type. Ike Eisenhower never took a platoon or a company into battle. The smallest military organization he has ever commanded in actual combat was the Allied Expeditionary Force that went into French North Africa in November 1942. He has no specific battle experience remotely comparable to that of Britain's Generals Montgomery and Alexander, or such...
...other battle areas, the invasion wounded are evacuated through a system of echelons, beginning with the single Medical Corpsman who follows each platoon (even if it travels by parachute), the litter bearers and the battalion aid station 1,000 yards from the front, and ending with convalescent hospitals in the U.S. In between come: 1) division clearing stations (usually about eight miles from the front), where the wounded are sorted according to their wounds; 2) mobile evacuation hospitals and field hospitals, 15 to 30 miles behind the lines; 3) station and convalescent hospitals in the rear. Ready for piecemeal hauling...
...private. When they came to a wrecked bridge near Borgo Grappa, they got out and started to walk, escorted by a flock of politely curious Italians on bicycles. At 7:31 Buckley met a force moving south from the Anzio beachhead - Captain Benjamin Harrison Souza of Honolulu and his platoon of engineers. The captain and lieutenant stared at each other...
...having declined an invitation to join the Harvard crew, plans to wing Wisconsin-way with a gleaming multi-facet job which may men wedding bells the' he claims otherwise. G. Grove, having previously committed himself, will assume added responsibility on this leave, and P. Harty, attorney-at-law and platoon-commander-extraordinary, will do likewise...