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Marshal Georgy Zhukov, stalled in Tarnopol's ruins, struck on the northern flank. In a cold spring rain, one column crossed the bloated Ikwa to take the 950-year-old fortress of Dubno, in old Poland. Another column slithered up a hill to take the fortress of Krzemieniec. From both, roads now led straight...
...crew of the Fortress Passion Flower it was their 18th and biggest mission-the first big U.S. raid on Berlin. In the ball turret Gunner Dick Litherland of St. Francis, Ill. sweated it out-the toughest battle U.S. airmen had fought over Europe. Sixty-eight Fortresses and Liberators failed to return, but Passion Flower dragged home on three engines. Gunner Litherland told this story...
Marshal Georgy Zhukov's men battled in the streets of Tarnopol (see map). This 400-year-old town is a gateway to the great fortress of Lwow; the key to the fate of the German armies in the Ukraine. To hold it, the Germans rushed in huge reinforcements (a Red scouting plane saw a column of 400 tanks), emplaced guns on a hill dominating the town, fought for every house...
...came at last to Monte Carlo. In the little Principality of Monaco, 370 acres of neutrality clamped to the underbelly of Fortress Europe, the Germans tightened the screws. Madrid reported that 5,000 resident aliens, thousands of casual visitors, were sent packing. Monaco, which contains famed, gay Monte Carlo, was left in the hands of the Germans and 1,500 native Monegasques...
...American soldier, England is a stopping place on the long road home through Fortress Europe. The drugstore cowboy has a native instinct for the busiest corner. When he can he makes for London. There he and his buddies fill the subways, the busses, the cabs, the theaters, the pubs and hotel bars. In astonishing numbers they go to gawk through the iron fence at Buckingham Palace in the hope of seeing the King. Says a cockney, also gawking: "He's a decent bloke, you know. Works hard. I wouldn't have his job." Says G.I. Joe: "Yeah...