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Early one morning in 1944, a flight of German dive bombers swooshed down on the headquarters of the British Military Mission to Yugoslavia. Sane Britons dashed for the slit trenches. At that moment, there appeared on a hilltop, in full view of the enemy, and dressed (as a further aid to marksmanship) in a white coat, an unruffled British officer. He was Royal Horse Guards Captain Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh (rhymes with awe), whose seventh novel is the Book-of-the-Month Club's January choice...
...still sleep with Germans." An American sergeant lounged at a nearby corner watching the thin traffic in Neufchâteau's one big street; he turned loose barbaric French at passing girls; they giggled, and swept on. Wearily he jerked his, thumb towards the hilltop graveyard on the edge of town. He said: "My division liberated this joint. A lot of the boys from the 79th are lying up there. And for what? To have these people spit...
Overlooking it all, on a hilltop, was the modest wooden home of the Navy's Pacific Fleet Command-the nerve center of the naval force which now rules millions of square miles of ocean. In a bare little cottage which he shared with two other officers lived Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz. In the cottage next door, adjoining bedrooms were labeled: "Spruance Room," "Halsey Room...
Final Score. When the rest of the unit reached the hilltop, they counted 58 dead Japs, three enemy knee mortars, two heavy and one light machine guns, 80 rifles, hundreds of grenades. All in all, it was the kind of performance that causes talk. Some it caused...
...headquarters on a Guam hilltop, Major General Curtis Emerson LeMay added up the results of three months' massive B-29 attacks on Tokyo. Tough-minded, realistic Curt LeMay claimed nothing of which he could not be sure. The things of which he could be sure...