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...When a battalion was ordered forward across the flats, the enemy opened up with machine guns and mortars. The men walked through a place where the Germans knew they would have to go. The survivors moved against Baldy. E and K Companies got 200 yd. up the hill and hid in the rocks. L Company tried...
...down in the Pacific, paddled their raft for two and a half days, until they reached an island. Down to the beach to welcome them came natives, handed the surprised flyers a book. It was the Bible. For 87 days the friendly Christian natives (converted years ago by missionaries) hid the Americans from Jap patrols. They also, said the airmen, converted them to Christianity. Last week Aerial Gunner Stanley W. Tefft of Toledo told...
Near dawn he reached the wood's edge, saw a German patrol. Surprised, he hid in the underbrush until the Nazis passed. Then, as the sun rose, he saw horror in the shallow valley sheltering the town. The town was Lidice, and Karl Horak saw it die (TIME, June 22-, 1942). Of Lidice's 1,200 human beings Horak, so far as he knew, was the only one who escaped the Nazis' savage reprisal after the killing of Gestapoman Reinhard Heydrich...
Somewhere in Italy Privates Albert Campbell and William McGovern were in a position that had been infiltrated by German tank formations. Their platoon was cut off. Mortar fire was falling near by and Nazi machine guns opened up. They waded the Sele River, hid out for a night and a day, then started cautiously in the direction of U.S. artillery fire. After that they...
...city squatted on a towering bluff above the forests and marshes across the Desna. It looked shabby and scarred and a little indolent, for its steel mills and cement plants were silent and its people hid in dark corners. Atop the cliff German soldiers were building new defenses. Beyond the river two grimy, shattered railroad stations echoed the rumble of troop trains. And from the forests guerrillas watched the city, and emerged at night to derail German trains, ambush convoys, kill sentries...