Word: battlefronts
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...Allied attempt to flank the Westwall at Arnhem had failed. Germany's main eastern battlefront, along the Vistula River, was relatively quiet. Slowly, Eisenhower's margin of superiority in the west was worn down in frontal attacks against formidable defenses. V-E day was set back to 1944's end-then to May 1945. It was clear that the western Allies would need a lot more muscle to beat down their rugged, obdurate and resourceful...
Only Children Chattered. Only the children laughed or talked loudly, still resilient in suffering. One man carried a child pickaback (he stopped us and asked in good, crisp English what the news was from the German battlefront). Others carried children in baskets slung from shoulder staves. One enormous Bactrian camel bore a little child between its two humps...
Thus in 1944, the war had turned into a young man's war on the production front, just as it had turned into a young man's war on the battlefront (the Army reported 15,000 majors or above were under 30). But none of these men, in industry or the services, had yet time to think out, much less plot out, the kind of a world they were fighting to create. The sort of economy these young men would make in the U.S. could be only a matter of conjecture, even to them. What for instance, would...
...Wisconsin, draftees, regular officers. It had had some field training, a little tutoring in jungle fighting under simulated conditions in Louisiana. But training in those days was not up to post-Pearl Harbor standards, and the 32nd-though it did not know it then-was headed for the toughest battlefront in the world. Major General Edwin Forrest Harding, a regular, was in command...
...vast and horrifyingly incidental cost of war was underlined last week in a report by the Army Air Forces. Since Pearl Harbor 11,000 Army airmen have been killed in the U.S., most of them before they ever saw a battlefront...