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...German advance force ran up their flag and piled up stacks of abandoned Allied equipment, Nazi warplanes still winged high over, out to sea, looking for the fugitive enemy to punish him some more. He had escaped in his boats by night, after pretending by day to deploy for rallies and counterattacks. This maneuver was directed by the British Army's redheaded commander, Major General Bernard Paget, 51, son of the late Bishop of Oxford. That same spring afternoon in London, Prime Minister Chamberlain, breaking the news to Parliament that Britain's arms south of Trondheim were completely...
...that they left their wounded to freeze to death where they fell. The Finns retreated cautiously, carrying their wounded with them, for to Finland's tiny army every man was precious. How many men the Russians used, nobody knew. It did not matter; they had all they could deploy and replacements for all who fell. From the other fronts they had to defend, the Finns could spare a bare 100,000 to man their Mannerheim forts and entrenchments-and they had no reserves. As the second week of battle drew to a close General Harald Ohquist's Karelian...
Chief Constable Canning would not reveal how many of his own men he plans to deploy along his charges' route, but admitted the number was between ten and 20. "It's not like your Secret Service," he explained. "We have a couple of men near by, but we work chiefly in the crowds. I mean, there's where we have our men. We've found that is the most successful...
What happened was that the Ethiopians were beginning to fight. Shrewdly they had waited until the Italian advance was slowed and tangled in the narrow mountain passes. Heavy trucks were tearing impassable ruts in the new roads almost as quickly as they were built. Artillery could not unlimber or deploy. Tanks were jammed between boulders. Then from behind thorn bushes and through the mud walls of shepherd huts came the raking fire of Ethiopian snipers. Each one of these Ethiopian hornet's nests had to be wiped out-by infantrymen alone. For the time being the machine...
Within a fortnight an army of health investigators will deploy upon the householders of the nation to get answers to a quarter-billion questions. Last week the general staff of the quizzing army established headquarters in Detroit, whence they will manage operations in five great areas: 1) Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota. 2) California, Oregon, Washington, Utah. 3) Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas. 4) New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia. 5) Ohio, New York, Massachusetts...