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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...
...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...
...defeat of the German Army was decided ... at the end of last year. ... The Battle of Stalingrad ended with the destruction of an army of 300,000 men. . . . At the end of the Stalingrad battle 147,210 officers and men v. ere picked up from the battlefield and buried. . . . After the Stalingrad slaughter the Germans were unable to recover...
...night the alert lasted only half an hour. But one heavy bomb plumbed into a crowded dance hall and milk-bar. When the dust of the blast had settled, the district all around looked to eyewitnesses "like a battlefield," recalled the horrors of the blitz and jarred Londoners out of their recent tendency to ignore air-raid alarms...