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Once, during the battle, Gurtiev was buried in a cave. Dug out, he moved his headquarters to a huge concrete main beneath the factory ruins. From there he directed the defense-and constant counterattacks. His Siberian division was bled and mauled, but Gurtiev refused to move. Last week Moscow announced that Major General Gurtiev was killed leading his troops in the attack on Orel...
Weapons mastered, the final seven weeks drives home how to use them. By doing and redoing under battle conditions, they learn how to attack armored cars and low-flying planes, dig foxholes that will not cave in when tanks grind over them, fight in gas attacks, neutralize mine fields. Three times each class attacks enemy villages with live ammunition...
Conquering Allied troops heard that the Bey of Tunis, hawk-nosed, pouchy-eyed Sidi Mohammed Al Mounsaf, had fled to Europe with his Axis friends. But a British lieutenant found the sovereign in a bomb proof cave near his palace. Later, when a British major general called to pay his respects, the Bey had out his bodyguard, his band, and his 25 wives. The Bey himself, in grey suit and red tarboosh, complained that bombs broke the glass in his blue, bougainvillaea-covered palace near Tunis. The general apologized...
King of the Gulch. Near Idaho Springs, Colo., shaggy, red-bearded Alex Anderson lived a hermit's life in a mountain cave...
...Cave Junction...