Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Sicily last week Associated Pressman Harold V. Boyle reported an extraordinary battlefield bargain...
...American and British correspondents and few visiting big shots have been allowed glimpses of anything but small segments of the great battlefield-and then mostly after the battle has passed. Few Allied military observers-British or American-have been allowed to visit the front to study the Russian Army in action. Joseph Stalin, calling for arms and food, calling repeatedly for a second front, is still playing his cards very close to his blouse...
...front's over there," he said, waving toward a hill, and drove off. We climbed through rocky fields. There was not a living thing to be seen. Except for the bang of hidden guns and the geysers of black smoke, we seemed to have the battlefield to ourselves...
...Long Afternoon. Throughout the long, hot afternoon the usual fog of war settled around us and everything was confusion. The usual battlefield rumors flew up & down the lines in chaotic profusion...
After the planes had gone a hush settled over the battlefield. Soldiers left their foxholes and stopped to chat with one an other. In the strange quiet, men's spirits began rapidly to soar. Chuck Horner said: "This is the hardest battle we've had since El Guettar. I think"cross your fingers"we're going to get Troina tonight." Another Night. Except for the small pocket on our right, the Germans seemed to have departed. Chuck Horner chose a patrol to scout the approaches to the town. As the sun sank behind the hills, casting...