Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the shell-pocked Sangro battlefield (TIME, Dec. 13), Eighth Army veterans saw a dusky-eyed young woman running, heard her sob: "Stop, stop, oh please stop!" Her story: She was Bonita Caputi, American wife of an Italian officer missing in action. A refugee from Nazi terror, she and her baby daughter had lived with villagers in a cave dug in the Sangro no man's land, had survived eight days & nights of shelling and bombing...
From the South Pacific, where he wrote his best-selling Guadalcanal Diary, I.N.S.-man Richard Tregaskis moved six months ago, was soon in the Mediterranean Theater. There last week, on an Italian battlefield, lean, long (6 ft. 7) Reporter Tregaskis became a casualty...
...Washington for more than a year, a familiar figure by this time, tall, red-faced, hairy as a buffalo, moving gently and capably through the 50 one-story sheds that, because of disease, intrigue, and what went on inside them, were more dangerous to the wounded than any battlefield on earth...
...maneuvers were probably all that Mexico could put on a foreign battlefield (some 11,000 Mexicans are already serving in the U.S. Army). Their actual chances of going abroad were probably less than their readiness to go -as the Brazilians have already learned, the Allied staffs are not anxious to fit small, national units into global plans. President Avila Camacho is evidently aware of the difficulties. Last week, in proffering an M.E.F., he made one stipulation: that it serve under Mexican command, under the Mexican flag...
...Thus the full value of British reverse Lend-Lease may never be known. British aid to U.S. troops consists of millions of large & small transfers made right on the battlefield or at the bomber base, things immeasurable in cash...