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...month the 82nd fought as infantry before it was pulled back to England to rest. In September it made another drop, this time in the Nijmegen sector in Holland. In December, near Stavelot, the 82nd fought on the northern side of the Ardennes bulge, while the loist staged its epic stand to the south, at Bastogne. The 82nd finished the European war fighting with the British Second Army at Wittenburg...
Said Churchill: "It was only . . . when all the [German] preparations being made on the coasts of France and Holland could be examined in detail . . . that we knew how grave had been the peril. . . . Only just in time did the Allied armies blast the viper in his nest. Otherwise the autumn of 1944 . . . might well have seen London as shattered as Berlin...
...seventh largest (1,532 ships, 2,972,871 tons), had shown their usual perspicacity by placing their orders early. During the war the Dutch have lost 50% of their trim ships, including the crack liners Statendam, Veendam. New ships will be needed to haul reconstruction materials and rawmaterials to Holland. In the teeming Netherlands East Indies the only means of communications between the many islands is by coastal steamer...
Last week smiling Miss Ruth and grinning Private Holland, who wore the ribbons of the Silver Star and Purple Heart and carried two canes to help him balance on his artificial legs, were married at West Conshohocken's Baligomingo Baptist Church...
...purely economic aspects, said Douglas, the U.S. derives little nourishment from carrying ocean traffic. Other nations can operate cargo fleets cheaply. Those nations (particularly Britain, Norway, Holland) depend on ocean trade for their life. If the U.S. expects to sell them its goods and support its own economy, the U.S. must encourage its seafaring neighbors, not crowd them out. The U.S. should therefore sell or lease them some 30,000,000 tons of its dry cargo ships (plus tankers and passenger ships) to flesh out their war-depleted fleets...