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...356th Field Artillery Battlaion is a component of the 94th Infantry Division, Organized Reserve Corps. It is a "troop basis" unit, and, as such qualifies its members for postponement of induction under Selective Service administrative regulations. Under these regulations those who onlist in "troop basis" reserve units will not be called up by Selective. Service so long as they participate satisfactorily in reserve duties. This regulation can be changed at any time, however, by administrative order by General Hershey, but probably will remain in force as far as can be determined...
When the Chinese Communist armies in Korea began to run into trouble a few weeks ago, rumors got around that the Russians were building up troop concentrations on Sakhalin. Whether based on fact or not, the rumors made the U.S. high command sharply conscious that Japan's occupation garrison had been shipped to Korea, leaving the islands virtually defenseless on the ground. A Russian invasion of Japan from Sakhalin could outflank and trap U.N. forces in Korea...
Most Eighth Army troop commanders would have sympathized. Since the Korean war began, the U.N. forces' close and plentiful artillery support has helped as much as airpower to neutralize the vast manpower superiority of the Communists. Last week, day & night artillery barrages kept the Communists from overwhelming the defenders of Chipyong and Wonju...
...twelve months-32 were killed in a Long Island Rail Road smashup at Rockville Centre last February, 79 in another L.I.R.R. wreck at Richmond Hill.* For the Pennsylvania, it was the second major crash in five months; in September, the Spirit of St. Louis rammed into a stalled troop train near Coshocton, Ohio and killed 33 soldiers...
Early one February morning in 1943, the U.S. troop transport Dorchester was wallowing through icy seas off Greenland. Most of the 900 troops on board were asleep in their bunks. Suddenly a torpedo smashed into the Dorchester's thin flank. Frantically pounding up the ladders, the troops milled in confusion on the unfamiliar decks...