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Brereton's plane circled over The Neth erlands as the C-47s disgorged. The first paratroopers landed along the Rhine delta near the sea. Brereton's craft left them be hind, flew on over a huge expanse of flooded lowlands, where the bright red roofs of the white Dutch houses showed above the blue waters. Here the Germans had created a vast last ditch...
...Allies had a formidable waiting army - the airborne legions of Lieut. Gen eral Lewis H. Brereton - for landings be hind any stubborn German defense line...
...crinkle-eyed pipe-smoker in the Kremlin appeared fit and trim as a new Stormovik. Tadeusz Romer, former Polish Ambassador to Moscow, now back again with Premier Mikolajczyk, had not seen Joseph Stalin since early 1943. Romer found Stalin looking "years younger." ?>e-hind the tobacco haze the old revolutionist could well shrug his shoulders, and utter his characteristic-rejoinder: "Pochemu niet...
...From Normandy: It was the afternoon that Cherbourg fell, and the fighting was still pretty hot. We went a little way and a 20-mm. began shooting at us from be hind. Most of the G.I.s hit the dirt behind a wall. Ernie, who was talking to a couple of them, kept standing and kept his hands in his pockets. I watched his face as he went down the street and he was scared all right. A little later we got mixed up in a tank-v.-pillbox duel and the pillbox knocked the tank out right outside...
...owes its deadliness partly to an almost unique property: on insects it acts as both a contact and stomach poison. It first paralyzes an insect's hind legs, then gives it a violent attack of the jitters, finally brings on complete paralysis and death. Oddly, the pure chemical has little effect; it is good only in an oil solution or when mixed with inert powder. The usual dose is 1% to 5% DDT, dissolved in kerosene or mixed with a dust filler...