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...started by War Correspondent Hemingway during the bloody battle of Huertgen Forest, was apparently a favorite of the author's. Later, in the Ritz Bar in Paris, he would often ask his friend Marlene Dietrich to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Papa's Poems | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

Bill Edwards, who left Hayti, Mo. (pop. 2,628) to fight in Europe, was on a night patrol in Huertgen Forest when a mine blew his foot off. He lay where he had fallen, keeping his mouth shut so as not to betray his comrades to German infantrymen near by. Artillery shells whistled overhead in a constant barrage. A shell fragment struck his good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Wired for Death | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

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