Word: bigart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battalion in Italy made a gallant and determined stand against the Germans from a cave on the rocky road that runs north from Anzio. Cut off from supplies and fighting for a week without replacements, the battalion, in the words of New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Homer Bigart, "withstood the cruelest pressure any American unit has been called upon to face in this...
Modest Intentions. Meantime laymen's disillusionment with air power was growing. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart: "It is strange, after reading eyewitness accounts of how Cassino was leveled by the air force, to stand on a hill overlooking the town and see so many buildings still erect. . . . The Allied air forces have been the victims of too much ballyhoo...
They threw heavy, sudden attacks around the rim of the beachhead, probing for a soft spot, using tanks and assault guns as mobile artillery. Where they found the going reasonably good they poured on the pressure ruthlessly. From the beachhead, N.Y. Herald Tribune Correspondent Homer Bigart radioed...
...obscured campaign came a clear description of Wehrmacht defenses, along the Monte Samucre sector of the Fifth Army front. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart...
...sunlit, stuccoed San Juan, beggars collapsed on the streets. There were fist fights when 22,000 pounds of spoiled codfish were dumped into the sea by customs inspectors. Last fortnight the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart reported, after a tour of the island, that storehouses were empty of rice and fish, that only a month's supply of beans was available. In San Juan, prices soared: the cheapest kind of beef meat sold for hamburger at 59? a pound, small brown eggs were three for a quarter, onions 40? a pound. Quinine to use against malaria...