Word: battlefronts
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...people learned last week from a smiling, confident, even cocky President that the word for 1943 is action-determined, bitter, bloody action on every battlefront...
Then the soldiers' day begins with steel-helmeted troops marching at dawn from Moscow to the battlefront. Within seconds the film plunges into the grim reality of war: a Marine, crawling across a field near Leningrad, is killed by a Nazi bullet in front of the camera. Then a plane, trailing black smoke, crashes to earth. With the terrible veracity of death the film ranges the long battlefront: a Soviet submarine sights a ship through its periscope and torpedoes her; Soviet ski troops swoop down a hill under fire and some fall. A company of guerrillas storm a village...
...Shipping shortages will keep most of the 10,000,000-man U.S. armed forces at home, thousands of miles from the closest battlefront, until more workmen build more ships to transport them...
...nurses go to every battlefront, will probably be called upon to handle "the vast problems of disease, malnutrition and war shock that will exist in devastated areas" after the war ("Be a nurse and see the world...
...North Africa, the U.S. advance was stalled for lack of air superiority. From the Solomons came little news of fighting. Sole bright spot on the fighting front was Buna, which finally fell into U.S. hands. But from one battlefront-on which all others ultimately depend-the nation received dramatic news of great successes...