Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been opened by the terrible blood bath in which Hitler and his confederates are trying to drown all Europe in the name of the freedom of the German nation. Germany's name will remain forever dishonored if German youth does not at last rise up, avenge and destroy its tormentors and help in the building of a new spirit in Europe...
...offensive against Germany and Axis Europe is suffering from understatement. The objective is not merely to destroy cities, industries, human beings and the human spirit on a scale never before attempted by air action. The objective is to defeat Hitler with bombs...
...beat off the irritating raids. An elaborate watch and signaling system can at best only hope to give ground gunners 50 seconds' warning, so sharpshooter gunners are being trained by special diet and physical exercises to quicken their perceptions. They must be able to range, sight and destroy targets within five seconds. Sharpshooters must agree to live a monastic regime. On duty the gunners are not allowed to stoop even to pick up a dropped coin...
...Mayer) tries to show a few days in the lives of twelve American and Filipino soldiers and one sailor, as the enemy pushes down the peninsula. The task of Sergeant Bill Dane (Robert Taylor) and his men is to cover the retreat, hold a bridgehead as long as possible, destroy the bridge as often as the Japanese attempt to rebuild it. One by one, through several days of sweat, fever, exhaustion, din and death, the entrenched men fall to Jap action. The last of his group alive, Sergeant Dane stands in a grave which he has marked with...
...along with us until the end. That danger is the undue prolongation of the war. It is in the dragging out of war at enormous expense till the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must now reside. We must destroy this hope as we have destroyed so many others...