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...Europe that had lost virtually its entire industrial capacity to the Germans, and to carry the war to Japan, the U.S. turned on a great gusher that armed and propelled Allied forces back onto the Continent. Without that, there would have been no D-day, no march toward Berlin, no victory of any kind. "The American war-production job was probably the greatest collective achievement of all time," said Donald Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board from 1942 to 1944. "It makes the seven wonders of the ancient world look like the doodlings of a small...
...early 1946 Wyman was discharged from theArmy in Berlin...
...arranged it that way because I wanted to gostraight into the Foreign Service, which I coulddo in Berlin because our mission there neededjunior officers immediately," Wyman says...
...Berlin surrenders...
...about England, which I knew well. He warmed up a bit, and I asked if he was on a commando raid. At that, one of the enlisted men spoke up: 'Ha ha, it's no bloody raid, it's an invasion, and we're going all the way to Berlin...