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...evening came the volunteer "work corps" helpers, mostly agriculture teachers from the University of Nebraska. They tramped through the dusty grain, stacking the oats six bundles to the shock...
...ship stood off Gela, a soiled town on a blue bay, the main initial objective of the U.S. troops. Against Gela and its environs had been thrown a great weight of naval shells and aerial bombs. Against Gela, now, were sent crack troops of the Seventh Army: first a shock battalion of Commando-trained Rangers under Lieut. Colonel William O. Darby, who was to do brave things, and Major General Terry de la Mesa Allen's tried-&-proved 1st Division...
Most of the battalion's anti-tank guns had not come up. Under the first shock, it had to retreat from hill to hill, toward the sea. The battalion commander, trying to pull his companies together at the height of the German attack, was wounded. His executive officer, a young captain, had to take over. Upon him, for a tense while, the fate of the U.S. invasion rested...
...that the first shock of re-entering the status of Apprentice Seaman has passed, these men who have learned the value of ratings and rank from fleet duty are headed for the Ensign's full stripe. Most of them hope to return to the same type of service from which they were drawn...
...addition to libelling the College itself, the article takes it out on the patriotism of Harvard graduates, saying, that "the physical transformation would surprise, and perhaps shock, alumnl." NO doubt a man who hasn't been to Cambridge in a long time would be surprised to see all the men standing guard in the Yard and uniforms all over the pace, but they wouldn't be shocked. Most Harvard men are proud of what their Alma Mater is doing for the war effort. It would probably please them to see all the complimentary things that are said about just that...