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...steps loitered an informer. He counted one, two, three-half a dozen prizes, waited to count no more. An hour later the Gestapo burst in, arrested 30 of Norway's fiercest patriots...
...narrow road that winds toward the coastal town of Ortona in eastern Italy, a Canadian division was in its fiercest fight. General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had secretly switched his Canadians out of the Apennines to make them part of the spearhead he thrust towards the key Adriatic port of Pescara. For the first time since Sicily, the Canadians were being regularly mentioned in Allied communiqués. Those fighting on an eight-mile front were battlewise veterans of Sicily. They had been with the Eighth Army in its 500-mile march across the heel and up Italy...
...fiercest battles were fought near Krivoi Rog, in the heart of the Dnieper bend. This devastated iron center also protected a German escape corridor across the southern Ukraine. The capture of Krivoi Rog would culminate the lower Dnieper campaign, enabling the Red flood to roll southward, cut off perhaps a score of German divisions...
...South Atlantic, Brazilian authorities reported eleven sinkings in recent days, took over a radio station suspected of guiding Nazi submarines to their victims. But the North Atlantic was once more the scene of the fiercest attacks, the worst losses...
...continental defense. An inner fortress, to be held as a last barrier around the Reich, would include northern Italy and Yugoslavia, Hungary, Rumania, and a Russian front running through eastern Poland. But, said these reports, the Germans would surrender lower Italy and the other outlands only after the fiercest rearguard fighting...