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...used many a battle-scarred trick. Said a U.S. officer: '"The moment we take an objective we have to organize our perimeters quickly, for the Japs . . . strike back immediately in localized counterattacks." Public-address systems were brought up by the Japs to make noisy diversions while their troops crept round to attack from the rear. But, said the American officer, "our boys are awake to all these tricks. They have not been confused . . . and have held their fire like veterans...
...nearly as any German city has ever been in this war, Hamburg was dead last week. Its streets were twisting lanes through tumbled wreckage. A few busses crept along them, while cars equipped with loudspeakers called on the population to leave. Hamburg had no gas, no electricity, no water, little food. Money existed no longer - food, busses and trains were simply taken where they could be had and no one asked for payment. In the ruins, on the streets, in the branches of trees where bombs had blown them, lay the dead, their eyes wide open, staring...
...season & out, Times Pundit Arthur Krock and his Washington bureau have been at great pains to explain that, generally speaking, the State Department is without flaws; and that if any little flaws have crept in, they are the work of Mr. Roosevelt, never of good, grey Cordell Hull. But this story, on the authority of unnamed officials, flatly reported that the State Department: 1) is in a sorry state of confusion; 2) is the scene of bitter personal intrigue; 3) has no coherent foreign policy...
...that Butera, perched on a hill behind deep and well-gunned passes, might require a month of siege. It fell in a matter of hours to a Ranger detachment of 50 officers and men. After a tense, hard march in the night, Privates John C. See and John Constantine crept within earshot of the garrison, lolling and chatting beside their guns and trucks at the top of a high pass. Constantine, one of the many Italian-speaking soldiers in the Seventh Army, called upon them to surrender. The few German officers with them tried to make the Italians fight. After...
Then the storm abated. The armada crept under the lee of Sicily's shore. Just before the hour, all the ships were at the "transport area." Every single ship of the thousand had been accounted for. At a signal, the invasion began...