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...cliff. . . . They saw thousands of crated brand-new jeeps being burned . . . and you can't get a jeep to drive with on the island. The orders are: 'Destroy before the civilians get 'em.' They say they're doing a better job of 'burnt earth policy' than when the Japs took over. Maybe they're doing the right thing. I don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 4, 1946 | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

Lake of Jade. Seen from the air, the crater itself seems a lake of green jade shaped like a splashy star and set in a sere disc of burnt vegetation half a mile wide. From close up the "lake" is a glistening incrustation of blue-green glass 2,400 ft. in diameter, formed when the molten soil solidified in air. The glass takes strange shapes-lopsided marbles, knobbly sheets a quarter-inch thick, broken, thin-walled bubbles, green, wormlike forms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Footprint | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

Nerve News. In Chicago, burglars got into police headquarters, leisurely cleaned the detective bureau of $10,000 in cash and jewelry, left a litter of 70-odd cigaret butts and burnt matches. Few days later gunmen pinched one of Mayor Kelly's brand-new police-escort cars, used it in four holdups, finally abandoned it and vanished without trace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 20, 1945 | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...full of the burnt smell of shooting and the men's ears rang with gunfire on the day a small reconnaissance group raided a town in Sicily. As they moved cautiously along, Bernstein glanced across the street at a young private named Taylor. "Isn't this like the movies?" Taylor said with a grin. "Isn't this just like the movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The No-Glamor Boys | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

Many of these old-TiMERS have just been freed from concentration camps; others spent long months as prisoners in Germany. One lost everything she possessed when she was "bombed and burnt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 30, 1945 | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

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