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...spread over the battlefield by 24 inches of rainfall in 30 days (far worse than usual, even for Leyte) and was kneaded day & night by the treads of tractors and tanks, the wheels of trucks and cars, the tramp of a quarter of a million feet...
...courage and resourcefulness. Captain Hall got the Distinguished Service Cross. Of the 62 men in the 165th, two others have won the Silver Star, six have won the Bronze Star, and one sergeant has been promoted on the battlefield to second lieutenant. But most of the recognition they receive is an anonymous Credit line: U.S. Army Signal Corps...
...Bismarck Sea, where they sank every one of 2 2 ships in a Jap convoy headed south to reinforce the dug-in forces in the bitter fighting around Buna and Gona. In this technique Douglas MacArthur recognized one of the oldest principles of war-isolation of the battlefield-achieved with war's newest weapon. It was final proof that if he could control the sea north of New Guinea with air power and the help of the U.S. navy, he need not plow the 1,500 miles through New Guinea's jungle to the tip and the jump...
...behind the Hungarian front line, Yugoslavia and Greece were mere mop-up operations. Belgrade, the "white city," wise in the ways of war, was again a battlefield. Russians and Yugoslav Partisans were fighting in its streets, where Germans had erected pillboxes, antitank obstacles and gun emplacements. To the south, the railroad-junction city of Nish was captured by Partisans and Bulgarians...
Happily Lee's men moved on toward the little town that was to be the greatest battlefield of the Western Hemisphere: Gettysburg. There had never been an invasion in history like this one. There has never been such another...