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Fresh from a Philippine army hospital, Captain "Strench" Moran, husky 6th Division rifle-company commander, drew 800 pesos back pay, stuffed the notes in a shirt pocket, and trudged off to the battle line east of Manila. There the 800 pesos proved just enough to buy his life. A bullet grazed one arm, bored into his bankroll, nestled against the skin of his chest...
...Midland Park, N.J., Pfc. Wilson Ackerman's parents got a letter from their son, with some news and a request: he had landed with the 6th Marine Division on a Pacific island named Okinawa; if the newspapers carried anything about it, would they send him the clipping...
Sirs: With no son or husband to lose in this war, I consider myself well qualified to present an unemotional plea for the troops that have been active in the European theater of war since June 6th. It is not only unjust but certainly inhumane to send to the Pacific area the combat troops that have fought so valiantly since our landings in Normandy. In the sense of the word "patriotism," almost a year of constant warfare should be enough for anyone...
...First Army cut loose with a 25-mile push along the Thuringian corridor, south of the Harz Mountains. Next day the Ninth's 2nd Armored ("Hell on Wheels") Division amazingly spurted 50 miles to the Elbe River. Next day the Third's 6th Armored moved up 46 miles to the vicinity of Jena. Next day the same Army's famed 4th Armored sped 32 miles across the railroads and highway linking Berlin and Munich. Thereafter enemy traffic had to take the roundabout route through Dresden and Prague...
...north of the island the ist and 6th Marine Divisions, for once handling the easy end of the job, were clearing out scattered resistance and would soon be able to help in the south. The 27th Division (onetime New York National Guard) had come ashore for another crack at the Japs. The power was being built...