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...York Herald Tribune's Correspondent Homer Bigart, who covered the Italian campaign, described his reactions last week to fighting in the Philippines...
...Matteotti murder (TIME, Aug. 7) stirred international interest. Other political writers who have begun to clear the picture of Europe under Fascism are the U.P.'s Reynolds and Eleanor Packard, I.N.S.'s Mike Chinigo, A.P.'s Edward Kennedy, New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart. Most had been in Italy before the war, all have old contacts there from which new material has begun to flow...
...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...
Correspondent Bigart singled out for special mention the work of 25-year-old Corporal George Sylvester Viereck Jr., who stood in the mouth of the cave blasting away with his Garand rifle at oncoming Nazis while an artillery barrage thundered down on them from the rear. Said Corporal Viereck: "We had a feeling of animal joy as that stuff came down on the surrounding Germans...
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...