Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Target: Yawata. For their opening blow the U.S. heavyweights flew more than 2,000 miles to drop a great weight of explosives on Yawata, "Japan's Pittsburgh," and the sprawling Imperial Iron & Steel Works, source of one-fifth of all Japanese war steel...
...executioner As Fowler, pale but calm, took up his position, the other German officer came across the backyard and asked me about our ranks. I told him. He turned to the first officer and began to argue in a half whisper. After a few seconds he ordered us to drop our hands and to go down into the cellar of the administration building...
...advanced positions and from there we were ordered to carry a wounded German on a stretcher across a field under Partisan fire, back to the cemetery headquarters. Partisan bullets sang by and kicked up dust around us. We ducked and crawled and at one point had to drop the stretcher and lie flat. But a German paratrooper behind us, carefully taking cover, prodded us on with his submachine gun. We reached the cemetery unscathed. Here, at about n, I was separated from Talbot, Fowler and Slade. I did not see them again and have not heard what became of them...
...ranging boisterously all over Poland, shooting cattle and shepherds in the fields, and bombing farmhouses." The author was interned in Rumania, spent months of inaction in France, finally managed to get to England. G for Genevieve gives the impression that Poles fight like Indians, shouting exultantly when the bombs drop, forgetting everything but the chance to give the Germans a little of what the Poles have suffered...
...Manhattan Opportunity Shop, Inc (operated by the Community Service Society, one of the U.S.'s oldest and largest charities) reported a 25% up in sales despite a 12% drop in donations. And the Actor's Thrift Shop has found a customer for the tuxedo of the late Hendrik van Loon (6 ft. 6 in. tall, 85 in. around): the A.W.V.S. bought it to turn into a woman's suit...