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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

Book Reviews

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