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...Island and its 8,000 Japs (of the 40,000 in the Palaus) were the first target. The island's twelve square miles had been rocked six times in eight days by swarms of Army and Navy bombers. Then for three full days warships smothered Peleliu with a hail of steel...
...Hail the Conquering Hero (Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, William Demarest; TIME...
Paulette Goddard, who welds by day and kisses the boys goodby at night, determines not to get married during wartime. She spends her evenings dancing and ferry-riding with lonely soldiers until Sonny Tufts, straight from "So Proudly We Hail," comes along and breaks down her resistance...
...temporarily disconnected. He went on: "That was one of the most dramatic scenes I have ever seen. . . . Firing started all over the place. . . . General de Gaulle was trying to control the crowds rushing into the cathedral. He walked straight ahead into what appeared to me to be a hail of fire. . . . But he went straight ahead without hesitation, his shoulders flung back, and walked right down the center aisle, even while the bullets were pouring about him. It was the most extraordinary example of courage I have ever seen. . . . There were bangs, flashes all about him, yet he seemed...
...Hail the Conquering Hero (Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, William Demarest; TIME...