Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which G.I.s dubbed Coconut Grove, was reduced to ruins, and the ruins were sticky with Japanese dead. The measure of the enemy's desperation was in his tactics: one sortie was made by advancing so close to U.S. lines that the artillery range could not be shortened for fear of hitting U.S. troops. That enemy drive was stopped by machine guns, and the enemy dead that day were estimated at 500. But no position constructed like Coconut Grove could withstand the artillery pounding indefinitely, and at week's end it was mopped up. The 77th swiftly pushed west...
...eleven years old. But she could remember far back-almost five years. She was not quite sure that she could remember when the French soldiers went away. She was not quite sure that she could remember when the German soldiers came. But she could remember something. That something was fear...
...Germans had gone again and there was no fear-except that Paulette was terribly afraid of being late. For this morning the new French class began at the Town Hall, with a new teacher, Sister Elizabeth. When the Germans were there, everybody had to speak German. French was verboten. Now everybody must speak French. It was funny...
Sister Elizabeth asked Maria Pia and Bernadette to open the windows. From the distant Rhine rolled the thunder of guns. Suddenly, much more loudly, came the roar of planes. Eyes widened in panic, voices shrilled: "Flugzeuge! Flugzeuge!" (Airplanes! Airplanes!). The little girls had remembered fear...
Lieut. Wayne Morris, 30, tall, blond, peacetime Hollywood movie actor, now a veteran Navy fighter pilot in the Pacific, returned to Hollywood on 30-day leave, became its first real-life war ace: seven Jap Zeros. Said he: "My biggest fear all the time I was at sea was that one of my pictures would be shown aboard my ship...