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...consider themselves a "master race," with a mission to rid the world of "inferior" people. "Let all people of good will in all countries of the world know these facts," wrote Aleksandrov. "Let them remember that in the person of the American imperialists and their supporters there are the bloodiest beasts, the worst enemies of humanity...
...Tarawa (November 1943), the naval bombardment was not accurate or heavy enough; preliminary air bombing was poorly executed; amphibious tractors were too few, and unarmored. So the 2nd Marine Division had to wade through 500 yards of Japanese machine-gun fire to the bloodiest beachhead in the Corps' 176-year history. This they did. Morison gives the back of his hand to General Holland Smith, who says of his own troops' victory: "Tarawa was a mistake," claiming that the Marshalls should have been invaded first...
High Commissioner and commander in chief, he has been fighting one of freedom's bloodiest and most crucial battles. He had left the front to come to the U.S. on an urgent mission: to see the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and get more U.S. aid for Indo-China, the rampart against the Communist surge toward Singapore and the Indies...
...Crusade starts with Japan's march on Manchuria in 1931, goes through the bloodiest and most dramatic scenes of the Pacific war, and ends with the Communist aggression in Korea. To piece it together, M.O.T.'s men looked over millions of feet of film shot by U.S. and allied combat cameramen, as well as captured enemy film. The finished product is a fast, exciting news drama. Still to be put together: the final chapter, depending on the outcome of the war & peace maneuvers in Korea...
...drink in the bar of Jerusalem's King David Hotel, Richard Usborne caught this strange snatch of conversation from a nearby table. He lost the rest of it in the buzz of barroom talk. That was in May 1941. In the next ten years, the world fought the bloodiest war in its history, the British Empire nearly went down to defeat, the King David Hotel (bar included) was badly damaged by a terrorist bomb. But Richard Usborne, an advertising man, never stopped worrying about what could possibly be the story behind that lion...