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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1943
Page
19
Combined Operations recounts Allied assault on Madagascar. British forces landed from naval craft, fought through jungles and coastal defenses, captured towns including Anishane and Orangea, and forced surrender of Diego Suarez within days. Casualties total about 500 with few deaths.
In this Q and A session Albert E Wiggam discusses training soldiers to act automatically in battle. General Patton advocates habit formation to fuel instinctive fighting. The piece also covers fears inferiority Freud Jung suppression substitute activities and improving social interest as salvation. It ends with a lightning strike anecdote and a teaser about two heads.
At Attu Island in MASSACRE BAY the US Army band suffers mishaps as instruments lost at sea, drums wounded in a mortar barrage, and a series of near breaks with no players left to perform while remaining hospitalized. An appointment notice then follows for Margaret Ruth Young as executrix of Clarence Lee Young's estate in Linn County Iowa.
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