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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...
...Deep Sea. Since the Allies had made clear that they must have Italy as a base against Germany, the Badoglio Government faced an almost impossible situation. How could it keep Italy from becoming a battlefield? The Rome radio complained: "Fascism has fallen. What have [the Allies] offered Italy? . . . The velvet glove over the iron fist of unconditional surrender. . . . Our peace could be nothing but a continuance of war, with us or without us or over...
...they were not shelling our rear. They were not shelling our tanks. They were shelling us. That noise, that approaching roar, drowned out even the power to think. On the hill up which our soldiers were struggling, the rocket shells started fires. Soon, to the normal noise of the battlefield, was added the crackle and hiss of flames...