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...provided the name for so many other base men that somehow he seemed almost to have lost personality. At the end of the first day of his trial last week in Oslo, only 21 hard-eyed Norwegians turned out to watch him as he was led back to his fortress-prison for the night...
...woke up, looked around unsteadily, picked up his gold-braided cap, shuffled off. Seven hours later, shorn of his Marshal's uniform, he deplaned at bleak Portalet Fortress in the Pyrenees...
...little Trinity Chapel (Episcopal) on the Old York Road candles burned in the windows and on the altar. As people fresh from their radios and the great news of the Japanese surrender began to gather, the organ swelled out A Mighty Fortress Is Our God. There were Episcopalians, Presbyterians, two modestly dressed Quaker women, and many who had never been seen at church before...
...promptly caught and hanged. His 19-year-old sister lost her mind at the news. For the next 25 years, until her death, she called at the bank daily to inquire for her brother. In legend, she became the "bank nun." Until 1924, the bank occupied a low, fortress-like pile dominating London's City, was known as The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. (Despite its ponderous look, a workman once found his way from the street through building cracks and into the bullion room.) It withstood the bombs of the Luftwaffe...
...Seattle the task was difficult. Boeing's Flying Fortress plant was sandwiched between busy Boeing Field and a natural landmark, the Duwamish River. Camoufleurs hid the field so trickily that veteran pilots had to ask the way in. Atop the Boeing plant went a 26-acre village made of chicken wire, canvas, lumber, painted chicken feathers. The town had 53 houses, stores, a gas station. Some of its streets crossed the field, went up Beacon Hill. The camoufleurs skipped the river...