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Rundstedt's all-out gamble involved the U.S. forces in their gravest and costliest battle of World War II. That savage outpouring of German strength showed clearly enough that the Man of 1944 was not to be found among the idealistic dreamers and crafty politicians who wanted to perform a Caesarean operation on a world at war, to bring the postwar world to birth ahead of its time. Not in three years of war had there been so much mutual recrimination among Russia, Britain and the U.S., nor such alarming cracks in their solidarity. In these cracks lurked...
...were terrific. In 13 major assaults on at least 15 aircraft centers, the Allies dropped 18,000 tons of bombs. In furious air battles over Germany the Allies lost 387 bombers and 37 fighters. But they shot down 644 German planes-153 more than the enemy lost in the costliest week of his air defeat in .the Battle of Britain three years...
About 1,400 San Antonians have been killed, wounded or are missing. Nearly half these were Latin Americans, chiefly Mexicans, who have proved among the best of U.S. combat troops. Six San Antonians were killed at Pearl Harbor, but Salerno was costliest. There the 36th (Texas) Division, including 1,000 San Antonians, spearheaded the beach attack...
...fighting along the Volturno. As the German barrage crept yard by yard along the river bank "three times soldiers I had talked with less than three minutes before were injured by artillery fire"-and he was in Bari last December when the Luftwaffe sank 17 Allied ships in "the costliest sneak attack since Pearl Harbor...
Last week, almost a fortnight later, the Washington Post broke the story of how devastating the German air raid damage at Italy's Bari harbor really was, how high the casualties (see p. 27). Bari had been the costliest "sneak attack" since Pearl Harbor. A high Administration official told a newsman: "You're going to hear more about that raid before you hear less."Somebody at Bari underestimated the Nazis...