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Portrait of a first-class Pfc.--Melvin Finger, who has finally returned to the comfortable obscurity of the Second Platoon, after more than two months in various positions of responsibility in Company...
Ever hear the one about the absent minded professor? Well, this is almost as good. A. J. Gregory, who was trying awfully hard to function as the leader of the third platoon on the way to chow the other day, got his signals mixed as we approached the outskirts of Harvard Union. "Column left," commanded Mr. Gregory, who promptly did a very next column right and marched down Quincy Street all by himself. The Platoon, which was hungry, marched straight ahead toward the Union's main entrance. "Oh, pardon me," apologized Mr. Gregory, scurrying back to the head...
...violent stream of artillery and machine-gun fire tore the platoon positions. Said Private Fadel: "We weren't fooled any longer. Our artillery started knocking hell out of the houses across the river, and when men in pith helmets came rushing from the buildings, screaming for mercy, we opened up at them with everything we had. We wouldn't let them go after that trick...
Somewhere in Italy Privates Albert Campbell and William McGovern were in a position that had been infiltrated by German tank formations. Their platoon was cut off. Mortar fire was falling near by and Nazi machine guns opened up. They waded the Sele River, hid out for a night and a day, then started cautiously in the direction of U.S. artillery fire. After that they...
...Guardsmen in the area were all on the prowl.) The girls were forbidden dates, drinking, smoking, gum-chewing. They could not talk to a man "without permission." They were surrounded at all times by a massed armada of gimlet-eyed chaperons, including 20 of their mamas, and a special platoon of Atlantic City matrons, hand-picked for their motherliness. Six well-armed Atlantic City cops, on "antiwolf patrol" under Acting Sergeant Robert Silvagni, flanked the girls wherever they went...