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Captain Ritchie Clark described the initial attack on the command post on the plateau: "The Japs would come at us yelling like Indians and our men would shoot them at 30 or 40 yd. Whenever one was wounded he would grab a grenade and blow himself up. There were about...
We wound up with a lurching thud against the far side of a deep ditch, just short of the highway. No one shouted or said a word. With thick, fumbling fingers we unlatched the safety belts. General Lee slumped forward, dazed and winded. It was his luck to be the...
Somewhere in North Africa, tough, profane Lieut. General George S. ("Old Blood and Guts") Patton Jr. found time to answer a fan letter from ready-to-fight Bill (no kin) Patton, 10, of El Paso, Tex. Wrote the General: "Dear Bill ... I certainly hope that by the time you grow...
Their remaining stay on Attu now appears to be short. Now the fighting has narrowed to a battle of soldier against soldier. U.S. troops are going in with rifle and bayonet and prying out each sniper, then blasting out each machine gunner with grenades. Such fighting takes canny soldiering. It...
The war at the end got into the German guts. With their units cut apart, their ranks infiltrated, they became utterly bewildered and could think of no plan of action but surrender. The Germans convinced themselves that they were beaten before they really were.