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Then the Gaullist administration moved to absorb the F.F.I, into the Regular Army, and General Joseph Pierre Koenig, Gaullist Commander in Chief of the F.F.I., ordered the Paris Maquis to give up their arms. The National Council of Resistance agreed that the F.F.I, should be under War Ministry control...
Only the First. The first blow of the gathering Allied offensive was struck. The enemy might absorb it, stop it. But the fortnight of stalemate had clearly demonstrated this fact: the air-powerless Germans could do little to forestall similar blows wherever, whenever the Allies might choose to unleash them...
...Plastic dishes in any color which will not break, crack, discolor or absorb...
Nearly all wounded men brought to field and evacuation hospitals go first to "pre-ops" or "shock tents." There they lie pale and uncomplaining in the eerie, khaki shadows of a single string of overhead lights while they absorb whole blood or plasma. Blood is a miraculous strength-giver. In 20 minutes drooping eyelids lift, eyes become clear and focused. Normal color returns, and the men chat with the nurses and ask for a cigaret. Then they go on operating tables, where wounds too horrible to describe get enough patchwork to allow them to go safely to England...
Combat duty did not change the orderliness of his ways. He walked the Admiral's deck, by his own estimate covering eight to ten miles a day, frequently stripped to the waist to absorb the sun's healthful rays. A war correspondent cracked: "Spruance will win the war in a walk-literally." Vice Admiral William L. Calhoun, chief of Pacific supply, remarked with admiration: "A cold-blooded fighting fool...