Three Leaders of Men 

Captain Hans Aimlie arrived in Spain early in March, 1937 and 
as an experienced military man with U. S. Army training took command 
of the No. 1 Company of the Washington Battalion. 
At the Brunete offensive he was made Adjutant to Capt. Markovicz 
when the former Adjutant, Capt. Traill was fatally wounded. On the 
fourth day of the offensive Aimlie himself was wounded. After his re- 
turn from the hospital, he took command of the Battalion until he was 
again Wounded at Belchite. After a few days he was back, again leading 
and inspiring his men, with his customary skill, and nonchalance under 
fire. 
Aimlee is from Wisconsin, and brother of well-known progressive 
Thomas R. Aimlie, U. S. Congressman from Wisconsin. He is now back 
in the United States for a well-needed rest. 

Captain Rollin J. Dart joined the XV Brigade with a distinguished 
record of achievement gained on the Cordova front with the English- 
Speaking Company of the 86th Brigade. 
An officer with four years service in the U.S. Army Air Corps, Dart 
came to Spain with the intention of joining the Spanish Army air-force. 
Unable to do so, for the time being, he went with the Infantry to the 
Cordova front. After his return, be became Adjutant to the Lincoln Bat- 
talion. As an all-round officer he had various assignments on the Staff, 
and was for a time on the Bureau of Operations. 

Captain Van de Bergh, a former officer in the Belgian Army, seems 
to have been destined by fate to come to the aid of the Americans when 
they most needed leadership. 
When Captain Merriman was wounded in the attack on February 27, 
and the Lincolns left without officers it was Captain Van de Bergh 
who stepped into the breach and took over command, reorganizing the 
Battalion in the most trying times. 
Later at Brunete, after Captain Marcovicz fell ill it was again Capt- 
ain Van de Bergh who took charge of the Lincoln-Washington Battalion. 
Cool under fire, a well trained all-round officer, in his early thirties, 
he has won the respect and admiration of all the men under his com- 
mand. 

V. M. 

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