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...more power to throw in than he had already shown, he probably aimed to smash up the First Army's manpower, supplies and communications sufficiently to immobilize it temporarily (three to six months). If, after accomplishing this limited objective, he succeeded in extricating his armor and infantry, he would have nailed down his minimum victory...
When the enemy broke through, eight of the signalmen and three other soldiers, with Tuffy along, had to hide in a cellar for ten hours as German armor rolled through the town. Panzermen were stationed in the house overhead. Two Germans looked into the cellar but saw nothing. They heard nothing, either, because Tuffy seemed to be holding his breath like his buddies...
...west bank. On his right, Courtney Hodges' First Army had to cross a smaller stream, the Inde, before it could come up to the Roer. The Germans fought like wild men for the Inde also. Driven out of the town of Inden, they lanced back in with armor and crack infantry, blew up a bridge. Ousted again, they put down an artillery barrage in which the Yanks counted 60 shells a minute...
...with their bonnets abuzz. Last week, on the somewhat dusty subject, "Are Clothes Modern?," the" Museum confronted visitors with some sharp displays and comments by Austrian-born Architect-Designer Bernard Rudofsky. On the thesis that clothes are always artificial, often absurd, sometimes harmful, the exhibition ranged from clanky chest armor to bird-cage bustles...
...inch armor-piercing bomb smashed through the side of the Vestal and penetrated three decks before it exploded in a metal storeroom. The Utah sank in eleven minutes after the first torpedo smacked her. Another bomb went through the Curtiss' upper works, made a shambles of the electronic equipment in the radio room, trapped two enlisted men under the radio transmitters, passed through the movie projection room and set fire to the film stored there. A bomb went through several decks of the Raleigh, came out the other side and exploded nearly 50 feet away...