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Russian newspapers were already dismissing Budapest as just another milestone on the march to Vienna and Berlin, but it might still be hard to pass. The Germans, backed by the Hungarians of the Fascist Arrow Cross, were digging in for street fighting. Presumably they would fall back on Buda, force the Russians into a difficult (but not impossible) river crossing under the heights crowned by Fortress Hill and the Royal Palace. The Russians could count on their own power, on help from some Hungarians who saw that the affair was over, and now preferred to save their city...
...Germans could spare to defend them. With Germany's east and west fronts in peril, how much was left for the south? Would Hungary's 35 divisions follow Horthy's line? Or would they follow the new government of Ferenc Szalasi, leader of the Fascist Arrow Cross...
Every enlisted man was a noncom except for a few private ratings, kept handy for "busting" unruly members. The Force wore its own branch insignia (crossed arrows), its own shoulder flash (a vertical "Canada" lettered on an arrow, topped by a horizontal "U.S.A...
...only departures from the conventional among early U.S. battle paintings were those made by American Indians, depicting frontier skirmishes. One, painted by Sitting Bull, was a crude impression of a fierce struggle in which a white man in top hat and tail coat was spitted by an arrow, shed buckets of blood...
...Pick, No Scat. In Broken Arrow, Okla. (pop. 2,074), another hero home from the wars had a welcome colored by Indian atmosphere, and flavored with country feasting. He was Lieut. Ernest Childers (himself three parts Indian and one part Irish), who, like Kelly, had earned the Congressional Medal of Honor in Italy. For him, too, there were parades, speeches, and a lunch in the basement of the Methodist Church. But Childers' homecoming was most memorable for a reminiscent evaluation of his fighting qualities given by his 55-year-old half brother, Walter Childers. Said Brother Walter: "He would...