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October 1945 Vol. LVII No. 4 84 Pages
Cover: Some Foot Soldiers Ride. (Photo by Signal Corps)
Inside Articles:
Once Again
“Sweeping.”
Dirty Jobs for the Doughboys
Lineup of the Division
Towns a Headache
Regimental “Troop Carrier Command”
By Major Irving Heymont, Illustrated by Hobart Britton
Science and Security.
By Dr. Vannevar Bush
The Hot Corner at Dom Bütgenbach.
By Captain Donald E. Rivette
Filipino Pony Express.
By Lieutenant Colonel E. M. Postlethwait
Leadership is Mostly Guts.
Personal experience leads this field officer to believe that leadership is eighty per cent guts with the other twenty per cent consisting of a number of elements, some unexpected.
By Colonel Silverleaves
The Raid on Los Baños.
Key to the Plan
Keeping the Enemy Occupied
The Mission Begins
Returning the Internees
By Lieutenant Colonel Louis A. Walsh
The Leader’s New Job
Tanks Over The Mountain.
Bulldozer Cuts A Trail
Foothold on the Pimple
Infantry Takes Over
Japs Are Reinforced
Our Objective Was Secured
By Lieutenant Colonel Eben F. Swift
The Psychology of Surrender.
Trapped in a Pillbox
There’s Enemy Behind You
Breakthough is Different
Rules of Surrender
By Lieutenant Theodore Draper
Keep Those 81s Pitching.
A few hints, gleaned from combat, on how to polish your heavy mortar outfit until it gleams with efficiency.
By Lieutenant Mark Melhado
Three Stars and Up — Part IV.
1917-1924: The First World War
By Colonel Frederick Bernays Wiener
Mule Artillery.
By John Phoenix
International Military Survey – The New Power and the Age-Old Principles. – A Review by Brigadier General Donald Armstrong
Shoestring Ridge — Part II.
Termite Patrols
Ready for the Jap
A Desperate Night
More to Come
Automatic Mortars
A Different Situation
Support Released
Reinforcements
Comparatively Quiet
By Colonel John M. Finn
Editorials
The New Infantry Journal
Forgetting War
The Main Problem
It will Take All the Best Minds
The Door Is Open
The Honor Roll
To The Editors
Younger Peacetime Leaders
Major General, Corps Commander. (Over 50).
Dress Uniforms
C. R. Weirich
Medical Hospital Ship Platoon
Capt. Stanleigh B. Richards,
753d Medical Hospital Ship Platoon.
Hey, the War Is Over!
Pvt. Allen J. Anderson.
Ward 88, Zone 3, USA Gen. Hosp., Camp Butner, N. C.
Already Passed
Pfc. Richard Ling,
430th AAA AW Bn.
“Werewolves”
Pfc. C. Joseph Anderson,
2d Infantry Division.
Combat Engineers
Pfc. D. 11. Shipione,
306th Engr. Com. Bn., 81 Div
Training Recognition Badge
Four Disgusted Lieutenants, 327th Glider Infantry.
Lipstick On the Front Sight
Lieut. Col. W. S. Corkran
8th Scrv. Cmd., Camp Claiborne, La.
“D-day on Omaha Beach”
Lieutenant H. W. Hurd.
Public Works Department, NSD, Clearfield, Utah.
Pay Day on the 20th?
The Journal in China
Roger W. Hamilton
Cerebrations
Cream of the Crop
Finn MacCool
Keep the Help in the Dark
Lieutenant Ambitious
Be Your Own S-2
Captain Frank Petruzel
Do We Need the Salute?
Major Streamline
Lay That Pistol Down
Master Sergeant Carbiner,
106th Infantry Division.
Meet Our Authors
Brigadier General Donald Armstrong is commandant of the Army Industrial College. He has been in the Army since 1910, serving in the Coast Artillery Corps and Ordnance Department
Dr. Vannevar Rush, director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, knows as much as any man of the part science had in winning the war. He was appointed to the post from the presidency of the Carnegie Institution in Washington
Lieutenant Theodore Draper served in Europe with the 84th Infantry Division as a sergeant and was awarded a direct commission a few months ago. Readers will recall his “Battle in the Bulge” in the May issue of The Journal. “The Psychology of Surrender” was written in a letter to his wife who sent it to The Atlantic Monthly. Last year Viking Press published his book, The Six
Weeks’ War, which is a chronicle of the defeat of France in 1940
Colonel John M. Finn, Infantry, who commanded the 32d Infantry (7th Division) on Leyte and Okinawa, was the recent subject of an article, “The Bartender and the West Pointer” by William L. Worden, in The Saturday Evening Post
Major Irving Heymont, Infantry, contributed a number of Cerebrations to The Journal several years ago and then dropped from our sight. But now he is back and with the leading article of the month. Lip until the fall of Germany, he writes us, he was busy being S-3 of the 5th Infantry (71st Division)
Lieutenant Mark Melhado, Infantry, was a section leader and then a platoon leader with an 81 mm. mortar platoon of the 2d Infantry Division from June 7, 1944 to February 10, 1945
John Phoenix, according to Cullum’s Biographical Register of the Graduates of the Military Academy, was the pseudonym of George Horatio Derby, who graduated from the Academy in 1846, joined Ordnance but soon transferred to the Topographical Engineers. He fought at Vera
Cruz and Cerro Gordo and was brevetted a first lieutenant for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Cerro Gordo. After the war Derby served in the Far West from 1848 to 1859. He went on sick leave in 1859 and died in 1861 at the age of 38. The editor of Encore tells us that “Mule Artillery” first appeared, so far as he can make out, “in a collection of the author’s Western and Army sketches published in The Pioneer or California Monthly Magazine (1854), of which he (Derby) was one of the founders.” The editor goes on to say that Derby “is supposed to have been exiled to California by the War Department because he couldn’t keep humor out of his reports”
Lieutenant Colonel E. M. Postlethwait, Infantry, commanded the 3d Battalion, 34th Infantry, in the Philippines. He is now on duty at Headquarters, Army Ground Forces
Captain Donald E. Rivette, Infantry, participated in the campaigns in Tunisia, Sicily, Normandy, France, the Rhineland and the Ardennes. During the action he describes in his article he commanded the Antitank Company, 26th Infantry (1st Division)
Colonel Silverleaves is an Infantryman in the Regulars and commanded a battalion in Europe during the fall and winter of 1944-45. He was severely wounded and is only now recovering
Lieutenant Colonel Eben F. Swift, Infantry, served with the 27th Infantry (25th Division) on Luzon. He is a 1940 graduate of the Military Academy
Lieutenant Colonel Louis A. Walsh, Infantry, was an observer with the 11th Airborne Division when he volunteered for duty as an intelligence officer and served with the division during the operation that freed the prisoners at Los Baños internment camp on Luzon. He is a 1934 graduate of West Point
Colonel Frederick Bernays Wiener, JAGD, is a longtime contributor to The Journal
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