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...Again on April 6, 1941, when the Panzer divisions pushed into Yugoslavia (Wavell's men, fresh from beating the Italians at El Agheila, made a gallant but hopeless attempt at rescue; three weeks later they were fleeing from the beaches of Greece, seven weeks later half the survivors were exterminated in the island of Crete...
...managed amphibious operation, but when it came the only surprise about it was the lack of immediate German resistance. Monty had taken his own good time to put the last bit of detail into its tidy place. The 51st Highland Division, which always leads a major Montgomery assault, the gallant 15th Scottish Division, the famed "Desert Rats" of the 7th Armored Division, all had rehearsed their roles...
Blimp first appears as a gallant and naive young officer named Clive Candy (Roger Livesey), back from the Boer War with a V.C., who takes it upon himself-very much without diplomatic portfolio-to go to Berlin in order to refute some popular German lies about British mistreatment of Boer prisoners. A café quarrel leads to a duel, thanks to which young Candy 1) gets the wound which causes him to raise his Blimpish mustache, 2) makes a lifelong friend of his unwilling opponent (Anton Walbrook), 3) loses, to this Prussian officer, a charming English girl (Deborah Kerr) whom...
...brought the highway under artillery fire, then inched forward to machine-gun range. Thus they cut an important Nazi lateral communication line ori the east bank of the Rhine. Finally a 78th Division platoon, led by a staff sergeant, crossed the road in what one correspondent called "a gallant, old-fashioned infantry charge across 250 yards of coverless, fire-swept ground." At week's end the Yanks were astride the road along a six-mile stretch and had pushed a mile beyond...
Navy Secretary Forrestal called Joe Rosenthal, who took the picture, "as gallant as the men going up that hill." In San Francisco, Rosenthal's draft board switched him from 4-F (bad eyes) to 2-AF (essential deferment) because the picture entitled him "to a classification better than...