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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...
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...
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...
...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...
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...