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General Bradley had just fallen asleep when the light woke him. Patton was standing in the doorway. He beckoned. Bradley and Patton went into Eisenhower's room and the three men talked for more than an hour. Sometimes it was hard for them to hear each other because the trucks still roared by outside...
Through the Walls. Soviet War Correspondent V. Poltoratsky saw Breslau and wrote: "The assault detachments never proceed along the streets. That would be quite impossible. They blast corridors through the centers of rows of houses. A shell fired point-blank at a wall makes a doorway for the gun that fired it. The gun is dragged through and the gunners send another shell through the next wall...
Steps Retraced. General MacArthur had boarded one of Admiral Barbey's ships off Leyte when Oldendorf's force was already off Bataan. On the voyage, the general spent a good part of each day sitting in the doorway of the captain's cabin. He had the air of a man whose work was already done: the planning had been so complete that he had only a few short conferences with his staff. With satisfaction he told LIFE Photographer Carl Mydans: "This is the same route I followed when I came out of the Philippines...
...Americans had come back. Filipinos; ran excitedly through the shellfire laughing, crying, cheering to be inside the U.S. lines. When U.S. troops marched into the streets of Tacloban, women in bright dresses crowded every window and doorway ; old men sprang to exaggerated attention to salute every U.S. uniform; toddlers had somewhere learned to make the "V" sign with their fingers...
Tucked away in Dean Hanford's safe in University Hall is a 12 by 6 piece of worm-eaten brown oak with a common look that hides a three-century history of Harvard significance. It's a piece from a doorway in Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, and antiquaries feel sure that once upon a time when John Harvard was going to college at Emmanuel, he must have brushed against the wood with his gown...