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Featuring six returning veterans from the squad that defeated the Cantabs by the score of 13 to 0 last year, the W.P.I. attack is concentrated around the hard plunging of Hugo Norige, co-captain and fullback of the squad, and the fleet flank running of halfbacks Charley Schmit and George Kennedy...
Open to his army were opportunities: 1) to trap the Germans left in The Netherlands; 2) to flank the West Wall at Cleve, and lead a drive to occupy the Ruhr and cut the communications of the Germans in the Siegfried Line...
Kited Cavalry. With ancient Aachen surrounded, the enemy belatedly rallied to counterattack. But at that moment of crisis came another. The first elements of Lieut. General Lewis H. Brereton's paratroops plunged to battle behind the Nazi troops holding the German right flank...
...defense of Kwangsi Province and its capital, Kweilin, had all kinds and grades of equipment: U.S. artillery, Russian tanks, Jap or Chinese guns. Some had fired away the last shell before the climax of the campaign came. Some were exhausted, others untried. In one corner of the Jap flank General Hsueh Yueh had 4,000 men-but only 2,000 serviceable rifles. Other units lacked boards to construct shelters, lacked signal flags for communicating with American airplanes, lacked radios to link their own flanks to their own headquarters...
Meeting in the Center. Along the Black Sea flank of the funnel raced General Fedor Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Army. A huge breach opened in the Nazi lines. A column sickled westward into the funnel's center, joined troops of Malinovsky's army. Kishinev, pogrom-haunted seat of Bessarabia, was stormed. Below the city the Russians closed a noose around 60,000 Germans. Then the Third Ukrainian sped down the coast. At week's end it stood deep within the sprawling, muddy Danube Delta, held the old Turkish fortress town of Ismail, swept into Galati, eastern...