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...Eternal City. It was Trinity Sunday and, through all the last stages of the advance on Rome, U.S. and Canadian soldiers could hear the church bells summoning the faithful to Mass. TIME Correspondent Will Lang had spent the night in a dugout under fire. At dawn he piled out and headed up in a jeep toward the sound of firing on Via Casilina. He cabled...
From a radio dugout deep in Corregidor 's rock heart a boy from Brooklyn tapped out: "Too much for guys to take. . . . They have got us all around and from the sky. . . . Everyone is bawling like a baby. They are piling dead and wounded in our tunnel. . . . I know now how a mouse feels, caught in a trap, My name Irving Strobing. . . . Tell my mother how you heard from...
...lieutenant claimed that a snake had a dugout below his, that whenever he drew a bead on the serpent it fox-holed...
...Grand Island, Neb. sailor wrote home from overseas: "We asked the censor and he said it was all right to tell you that we are at (deleted by censor). That is about all I can tell you, though." Dodger. On Kwajalein Atoll, marines prepared to dynamite a stubborn dugout when a Jap ran out yelling, "Don't shoot! I've got a brother in Brooklyn...
Books and Death. In his dugout later, Rotmistrov met Soviet newsmen. Happily he talked of J. B. Priestley's Blackout in Gretley, of cabbages, and kings, and strategy. The newsmen were impressed: this tall, athletic man was a hero, one of Russia's ablest tank tacticians. Stooping over a map, he explained how the troops of the Second Ukrainian Front made a narrow breach in the German defenses, converted it into a major triumph...