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CLantinuod from page one*
None of them was dick apparently because the
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BEPEAIED BY REMJEGT:
Enemy troops and installations have been suffering severely
from the extremely accurate fire of the U.S.S. TEXAS (Captain
C.A. Baker) and wearing the Flag of Roar Admiral Carloton F*
Bryant, U.S.N. and tho'H.M.S. GLASGOW (Captain C.F. Clarue)
who together with other Allied warships have been engaging in-
land targets behirrd beaches* Allied aircraft of all typos and
in great strength have closely supported our land and sea forces*
order) posthumously for having led his troops in attack despite
fatal wounds* , '
Several other officers also wore awarded the Gold Modal*
WASHINGTON:
The War Department'a nounoed that through the use of small
amounts of sulfadiazine, the army had reduced the mortality rate
from Cerebrospinal Meningitis - so called, ’’camp fever” of revolu-
tionary and civil wars - from ninctythree and two tenths percent
in the civil war to under three percent in the present war.
Doctor Francis G. Blake of Yale University, President of
Board of Investigation and Control of Influenza and other epide*
mic diseases in the army said that of 100 soldiers at Fort Mead,
Maryland given the new treatment, .92 of them showed presence
of the germ on several occasions during the test period which
lasted 68 days,
majority of them had immunity to infection due to the new trqat-
SALERN0;_
The Italian crown has awarded high military orders to Italian
soldiers fighting with Marshall Tito’s forces in Yugoslavia.
Major Cesare Piva fighting with Garibaldi unit at order
of Tito was awarded the Gold Modal (highest Italian military
Tlie enemy started shelling beach at a brisker pace and
our group dived into foxholes which had been dug earlier in a
gravel strip back on sand. Men moved on but had to dive into
ditch as More shells started falling.
Finally the men camo to a road loading inland towards their
ultimate destinations. It had been built earlier by engineers
in a few hours. Taking this road they left the chaos and devas-
tation of the beach behind and soon wore walking through green
rolling country beyond the strip of death.
_____ Behind them the wreckage of what had been described as in-
penetrable fortifications still sent up columns of smoko along
the beach they’d won*
Soldier-scientists digging through old Geology books dis-
covered certain beaches which appeared to be sandy were really
a few inches of sand over clay peat. Since clay peat would bog
down heavy equipment and soldiers who in darkness couldn’t toll
the difforenee•
The men crawled on their stomachs for miles along beaches
makeing tests of the soil and sand right on the spot. They
brought back to England samples of the sand and soil for further
tests which proved the old text books to bo right*
Because of their findings the Allied High Command knew
just what weight each beach could hold. They where tanks, bull-
dozers, and big guns could bo put ashore*without bogging down,
and knew which beaches could bo used for jeeps and light equip-
ment*
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