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Colonel Russell W. Volckmann was a lean West Pointer from Iowa. When Bataan fell in 1942 he took to the hills and organized one of the best guerrilla teams in the Philippines. By the time the U.S. forces came back, Volckmann and his band had already cleared the Japs from a large portion of northwestern Luzon's mountains...
...older brother, Frank, had been a West Pointer, and Lucius followed in 1916. His class was West Point's "war baby" (three years instead of four) and he finished in 1919 - just in time for a short assignment in Germany with the army of occupation. Then a temporary captain of engineers, he reverted to first lieutenant when he returned...
Unexpected Stockpile. Major General Henry B. Sayler, the blue-eyed, square-jawed West Pointer who is top dog for ordnance in the European Theater, now thinks that close to 80% of all equipment on the Continent can be put into fighting trim faster than there are bottoms to take it away...
Last week Conservative Lord Beaver-brook's London Daily Express published the result of a straw vote conducted by its election bureau in 487 of Britain's 640 constituencies. The score, a more practical pointer than the Gallup Poll findings, gave the Conservative Party 53 seats more than all other parties combined...
...West Pointer Darby was a soldier's soldier, undismayed by his command's suicidal missions, full of cool recklessness and the yeast of humor and enthusiasm. At Gela, with 18 blackfaced men, he caught 52 Italian officers holed up in a hotel, unhesitatingly went in with grenades and automatics, killed or captured all. Once, with one companion, he took on a tank with a .50-caliber machine gun and knocked...