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...gloom of dusk our craft fouled and for more than an hour we crouched in its belly, a perfect target for the Germans. Our little driver asked how far away the enemy was. 'Just over the bank,' someone replied. 'Which bank do you mean?' 'The one right in front of you.' 'Then let me out quick!' the driver yelled, and clambered over the side into two feet of water. ... I felt a lot safer myself after we were moving again. That night we slept in an abandoned farmhouse, and at an early...
...December, when Rundstedt broke through in the Ardennes, gloom lay heavy on the western Allies. Last week, as Joseph Stalin's armies thundered into the eastern Reich, the pendulum was swinging back to rosy optimism. Perhaps, once more, it was swinging...
Chungking felt better. A month ago, with beaten Chinese armies everywhere in retreat, the atmosphere had been black with gloom. Now the Americans were back on Luzon. In three months' time, predicted the Army newspaper, Sao Tang Pao, U.S. armies would storm China's coasts looking for the Jap. But no U.S. source backed up this optimistic prediction...
Pint-sized, scrappy Lieut. James Deloach peered through the forest gloom at two men locked in a murderous struggle. He saw that one had a wire looped around the other's neck, and that the man being strangled was a Jap. When the job was done, he nudged the killer and mumbled approvingly. The killer answered in Japanese. Deloach shot...
Till Death. Every Broeder is an Afrikaner of some standing in business, education or politics who has been watched secretly for years before being offered membership in the Bond. He is sworn in at a spine-chilling ceremony. In sepulchral gloom a light plays fitfully on a blood-spattered bier, on which lies a lifelike "corpse" wrapped in a black shroud. Into the "corpse" a dagger has been plunged to the hilt. Letters of blood spell the word Verraad (treachery). A predikant (pastor) intones: "He who betrays the Bond will be destroyed by the Bond. The Bond never forgets." Membership...