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a RCII uff i THE CAMDEN NEWS. CAMDEN, ARKANSAS PAGE Air Veterans To Hear Famed General Speak By HAL BOYLE Ft. Bragg, N. March 15 A hundred and fifty combat veterans of the Eighty-Second Airborne Division stood waiting as the slender man with two stars on his shoulder stepped to the microphone. They were survivors of Devils In Baggy who made four combat parachute jumps in Europe and helped turn back the German tide in the Battle of the Bulge.

They were gathered to hear the farewell addre.ss of their leader, MaJ. Gen. Gavin, who has been promoted to chief of staff of the Fifth Army in Chicago. not here to say because really never leave the said General Jim. always be here in And for about five minutes he told them in simple soldierly language what it had meant to him to LET US KEEP YOUR CAR IN TIP-TOP SHAPE WE REPAIR ALL MAKES AND MODELS C.

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The farewell marked another climax in one of the most brilliant military careers of the modern American army. It meant a step up for but it left 17,000 division troopers saddened at the loss of a commander they had loved for his youth, his his fighting ability. I have met a number of generals who were liked personally by their a number who But I never saw one who took their hearts more than "Slim who in 1944 became the youngest eround force general at the age of 37. Gavin leaped first in combat. And.

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At 41 he is now the recognized authority on airborne operations, which he leeLs will play a determining role in future war.are. It was liKe Gavin that when the time came for his final review, he hould think first of the veterans who had followed him out plane doors over Sicily, Italy, France and Holland. So the 150 who are still with the division shared the review honors, facing him in to formations as all their newer comrades paraded by. Later, alter he told them farewell, some of the oldtimers came up to hake hands. Many had wives with them and some carried small children in their arms.

that time I saw you in'France, said one veteran. lost my weapons, so you handed me over your own forty- laughed Gavin. needed it more than I Up came bald 59-year-old Staff Sgt. Charles Burt to introduce his wife. Burt, a cook, finally to make the Sicily Jump after he Insisted: men fight unless they eat.

gonna go along and see they have jumped all he landed on a stone and broke his foot. Two other troopers started kidding each other about the jump they made in Italy, and Tech Sgt. Samuel B. Bowen of Redvale, Colo, jeered: if dug a hole two (eet deeper we could have tried you for When Gavin left, his men stood around for a while talking about be doing whenever men of the 82nd gather. never was a better said one trooper, and then gave him a compliment soldiers rarely pay their generals: ask you to do anything he wouldn't That's why never forget Slim Gavin.

U. S. Studies Red Policy Washington, March 15 American policy toward Russia has been pushed by the almost the opposite pole since President Truman met Premier Stalin at Potsdam two and a half years ago. The chief executive came home from that historic Brltish-Soviet- American meeting saying: The three powers now more closely than ever bound together in determination to achieve a Just and lasting Today the president admits that his faith in eventual world peace is somewhat shaken although he still believes peace is attainable. He has committed the United States to oppose the spread of Comunism anywhere.

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