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...collected by souvenir-hunting troops who followed the tanks. Later we found one reason for this. Not all the Jap troops had shown the banzai spirit. Some of them still huddled in the fields and the ditches. One in four of them had committed suicide, but there was a cleanup job to do on the rest...
...Flag. Now the cleanup is about finished. Wheeler's company alone killed 300 Japs today and lost only two men. That kind of performance was repeated by other outfits in the pocket where good fighting men had died to head off the charge that made no sense...
...sunk $83,000 in 4,400 grave sites. Fritchey's hunch: that "Dacek" was Louis J. Cadek, a big-bellied, mysteriously prosperous police captain. Working with Cleveland prosecutors, Fritchey traced to Captain Cadek a fortune of $109,000 in Prohibition bootleggers' bribes. When the graft cleanup was over the captain and five other high-ranking cops were in prison, several others had lost their jobs. The cemetery racket was washed...
Paragon's Job. But there was hope. Old Marshal Pietro Badoglio belatedly consulted southern Italy's six anti-Fascist parties, gave them seven of 13 cabinet portfolios in a broadened government. The cleanup of known Fascists, at first very slow, had been speeded up (total ousted to date: 820). The AMG in Italy, largely staffed by British and U.S. businessmen with no nose for Fascists, had been absorbed by the better-run Allied Control Commission under British Lieut. General Mason-Macfarlane. In particular, an Italian-American from New York had brought to bear a great deal of political...
...Russians, the remainder of the Ukrainian campaign was a cleanup operation, but it had to be cleaned up in a hurry. The Germans obviously intended to slow them up as much as possible-for time to the Germans means opportunity to anchor a new front in Rumania...