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This was not Tunisia, but Fort Knox, Ky. Raiders were the Nazi Platoon-30 German-speaking, noncommissioned Armored Forcemen who prey on trainees out on long marches and overnight maneuvers. Faces blackened, signaling among themselves by owl hoots, the raiders fire blanks, use whistle bombs. The platoon averages five day or night raids a week. It specializes in mess sergeants (thereby canceling dinner) and tired stragglers...
...platoon was organized two months ago to pound into green soldiers the necessity of always being on guard. Says Major General Charles L. Scott, wrinkled, sunburned boss of the Armored Force Replacement Training Center: "The German platoon is the best single thing we have done to make fighting men out of the green material that comes to us. . . . Some of the soldiers killed in Africa would be alive today if they had learned that the enemy is cunning and crafty and has to be watched every minute...
HENRY MAXWELL went around school the entire day before he noticed that someone had changed his name tag to "RIN TIN TIN". . . would that have made his "wolfing" legitimate? . . . and speaking of women. . . Platoon Seven of Charlie lost two more to the fair sex when CHARLEY RITT and BOB SPORE tied the knot to gals named "HELEN". . . any way, its one method of getting a leave...
Gilbert MacDonald of platoon five nearly succeeded in single-handedly stealing the evening's honors for his platoon with an original satire on radio wave propagation. Platoon six's "The Harlem Revolts" or "The Shiek Shirks" was reminiscent of Harvard's Hasty Pudding productions, as muscular males cavorted about as scantily clad harem beauties...
Other productions on the evening's program were "The Reverend's Advice," staged by the third platoon and featuring H. L. "Happy" Graves who literally took the shirt of of W. B. Brown's and Fred Hanle's backs; "A Sober Day at Harvard", a satire given by the second platoon; "They'll Bear Watching", offered by platoon eight; two skits, "Old and New Watch" and "Hitler's Speech on the Harvard Communications school", presented by platoon...