Word: german
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true that the occupation statute was far from perfect, and that it contained seeds of future allied wrangling and German frustration. But Russia still maintained her unrelenting pressure to wreck
...Western German recovery; the U.S. stood committed to resist that pressure, as was underlined last week in a U.S. Army Day parade at the training grounds at Grafen-wöhr, Bavaria (see cut). In this situation the Socialists-for all their good intentions-would be irresponsible in rejecting the best offer which the Western allies could for the time being make...
...Strapping Germans. "Claude," his mother whimpered, "don't you think that tomorrow we should go to see the doctor again?" The son struck her angrily. He jumped up to get his Mauser, began to clean and polish, clean and polish. He was a marksman, proud of his success in shooting competitions. When World War II broke out, he had eagerly joined the French army. But all spring and summer in 1940, he marched endlessly over the roads of France, without so much as seeing an enemy to fire at. He returned to Calais to look with the eyes...
...Paris he had a change of heart. He came home again. He lived among fears that the Germans would snatch him for desertion, that the Resistance would sentence him for treason. On Liberation Day, Claude disappeared into the sand dunes along the Channel coast. Silent and morose, he lived in deserted German bunkers until the Resistance brought him to trial. He was acquitted...
Chuck got his wings in March 1943 as a flight officer, a warrant rank below the level of the commissioned officers. He joined the 363rd Fighter Squadron and went to England in December. The timid boy from Hamlin flew 64 combat missions, shot down 13 German airplanes, won a captaincy and a hatful of decorations...