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...Pacific theaters had the Japs such a large force active in the field against any of the United Nations. The Japs' strategy was sound and tried: encirclement and annihilation. Due west from Hengyang, one column struck swiftly toward Shaoyang; southeast of Hengyang, another struck from captured Leiyang to engulf Changning...
Number Two. Fires sprang up everywhere. Smoke turned the afternoon into night. Police, firemen, troops poured in to fight fire and panic. Just 30 minutes after the first explosion, a second created still more havoc. Fire threatened to engulf a city of 1,500,000. U.S., British, Indian troops fought flames for five days. As they rushed from one danger spot to another, the Americans sang Deep in the Heart of Texas. Sappers demolished hundreds of buildings to check the fire...
...anticipated fall of Odessa might seem the more important, but actually it was by far the lesser of the two events. Odessa was but a sand castle which the rising tide appeared certain to engulf. How the breakers will strike the mountain wall became a far more pertinent question...
...rode through the bedlam of the Place de la Concorde, staring with frigid disapproval at the hysterical, joy-drunk mobs, who threatened to engulf him. His heart and his tongue alike were prophetically bitter: the war, though mercifully over, had not been won. Into sullen, unmolested Germany marched a U.S. Army of Occupation. Pershing saw a future that wishful, gentler men could...
...gets beyond the coarseness. As a coal miner who marries the boss's daughter and by hook & crook becomes a boss himself, John Wayne is a thoroughly stereotyped Hollywood heel. Marlene Dietrich, cast as a rough diamond, looks like a phony one. For denouement, Pearl Harbor arrives to engulf all the characters in a spurious blaze of patriotism. Pittsburgh looks more like slag than good wartime metal...