Word: battlefronts
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...word "invasion" for the first time, explained solemnly that Allied air attacks on western Europe could now "be regarded as preparatory to invasion." An official military spokesman added that the High Command "expects the flare-up of fighting in Italy to spread to other sections of the European battlefront...
...last letter, written late in February, had said: "I am now ten miles back of the battlefront and can hear firing. We are bombed every night, sometimes three times a night. Our wounded are pouring into camp. Up until this time, war has been a pleasant experience. But now it has become gruesome...
...Asia is still a grade-B battlefront, must wait until Hitler is liquidated; 3) jungle tactics have not yet been mastered in the Southeast'Asia Theater...
Inch by Inch. Throughout the week the spectacular fighting around the beachhead almost obscured the main Italian battlefront, 53 miles to the east and south, where Fifth Army troops were grinding away at German strong points in and around Cassino. There too, howling storms of rain, sleet and snow gave the Germans an advantage. U.S. troops were battering their way into Cassino, house by house, but the Nazis still controlled at least two-thirds of the town, and were fighting back from the cellars even as tanks pounded the houses down around their ears...
...home-town weekly, no competitor to the big-city daily Stars & Stripes. His analysis of his readers: "The average G.I. Joe wants to see his name in print and likes to laugh at himself and his pals." Accordingly, Robinson handles front-line news in facetious but never flippant style. Battlefront pictures are taboo, since the doughboy knows what the front looks like. No button-polishing publicity sheet, 48th News carries officers' stories only when they are really interesting. (The division's general was interviewed when he took over, has been mentioned only twice since...