Posted on 01/04/2023 9:29:17 AM PST by fugazi
Brig. Gen. Dion Williams (USMC, ret.) is featured on page 7. As a young first lieutenant during the Spanish-American War he raised the flag over the naval yard at Cavite, now in Japanese hands. Read more on page 35 of the February 1942 edition of ALL HANDS magazine…
One of just three men to survive the U-boat attack on the cargo ship Longtaker tells his story of 19 days in a life raft in the Northern Atlantic (see page 15)… Summary of the war’s 121st week on page 28… Page 29 highlights how horse cavalry is adapting to modern warfare… Sports section begins on page 36
The College football season is over, and a great many athletes will leave the gridiron for the battlefield. Today’s sports section announces that head coaches are also suiting back up for wartime service. We have already mentioned Minnesota’s Bernie Bierman, who has orders to report to Quantico, Va. on the 15th. Bierman, a major in the Marine Corps Reserve, wrapped up his second consecutive national championship, going undefeated in 1940 and 1941.
Minnesota hasn’t lost a game since falling to the Iowa Hawkeyes in the next-to-last game of the 1939 season. George Hauser, a teammate of Bierman’s during their playing days, takes the Golden Gophers’ reins in 1942 and their first loss is to Iowa Pre-Flight, led by none other than Maj. Bierman.
Bierman coached the East team in the 1942 East-West All-Star Game. Coaching the West is Lawrence “Biff” Jones, a retired Army major who just received orders to report to Baton Rouge. Jones played for the United States Military Academy before serving as a field artillery officer with the American Expeditionary Force. He returned to coach West Point from 1926-1930, and upon re-entering service, will become the academy’s
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World War II Chronicle is a daily commentary series accompanying the newspaper from this day 80 years ago which can be read in full at the original post.
how does that FPOS get away wi wearing a hat shilling for his private charity???
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