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...Guilty. Finding the cause of the fire did not take long. Among the rescued inmates was Nicholas A. Verna Jr., an antiaircraftman at Salerno beachhead, who had got combat decorations and a head wound in World War II and returned to civilian life with a case of pyromania. With nine cases of arson on his record, Verna had been confined to Belle-Vista by the Veterans Administration. Confronted by investigators, Verna confessed that he had wandered into the basement and set fire to a towel near a laundry chute. "I got a sick feeling and had to do something...
Acheson's statement was the latest U.S. retreat from our policy of 1946, when we strung along with a UN resolution asking its members to pull their ambassadors out of "Franco Fascist Spain." Since then, U.S. military men have been advertising Spain as a fine and friendly beachhead on the continent, although they admit that if we are going to fight in Western Europe it will have to be on the Rhine, not the Pyrenees. A number of Southern senators have claimed that Franco is not such a bad man after all, especially since his country wants to buy their...
...Europe and that devastated Japan. Arnold insisted on the development of big bombers, argued the case for precision high-altitude bombing with the B17. He believed a battle area could be isolated by systematic bombing of communications behind the area, a contention that was proved brilliantly at the Normandy beachhead...
Protestants don't like to be considered mission-fodder for Roman Catholics-and vice versa. Last week in Italy, of all places, in Rome's Holy Year, of all times, some U.S. evangelists were hanging on to an embattled beachhead. They were members of the Churches of Christ (loosely affiliated fundamentalist churches with an estimated U.S. membership of 700,000), most of them from Texas...
During its four months on Guadalcanal the division was almost written off several times. When asked whether the hard-pressed leathernecks could hold the first beachhead in the Pacific war, Navy Secretary Knox said: "I don't want to make any predictions, but every man out there, ashore or afloat, will give a good account of himself." When this word came to Guadalcanal one sergeant mused: "Ya know, they're kicking up a stink about us back in the States." Said a private first class: "That's nice...