Ever To Conquer, Never To Yield: A Phenomenonlogical Investigation into the Origins and Meaning of the Auburn Battle Cry “WAR EAGLE.” - Introduction

By J. Henderson
Cairo, Egypt. November, 1942.
Just prior to participating in Operation Torch, the first combined American and British invasion of WWII, Capt. Earle R. Smith, an Auburn native and graduate serving with an AAF unit attached to the British 8th Army, bribes an Egyptian tour guide to not only look the other way while he [...]