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...Their opposite number-Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, who led the Japanese attack, shot himself on Saipan this summer, while the island was being overrun by marines. Nagumo gathered his staff in a hut and they all committed suicide, but not before one of them had set fire to the hut so that their bodies were partially burned...
...residential suburb, apparently on the beam of one distant launching site, suffered repeated blasts. Military damage: nil. The bombs fell, haphazard, all about London's vast sweep. Seven hospitals were hit in one day, three more the next day. In one, ten patients were killed. In one hut (next to a morgue that housed more dead) ten bomb-damage repairmen, just recruited in Scotland and Ireland, were killed...
Russian Spit. In a tiny hut filled with wood smoke, crowded with two cots and a rough-hewn table carrying a candle and scattered papers, ragged, tousle-haired young Churchill shook hands with me. Pribichevich, you have the biggest story of the war! In fact since my father escaped from the Boers, no one has had such a story to tell...
...noon we slid down a vertiginous slope to a peasant hut, and just as I was gulping sour milk from a wooden bowl, a rifle shot rang out outside. I ran out and beheld, some 150 yards off at the edge of the forest, two grey timber wolves tearing at the udders of a prostrate cow. As the peasant's boy fired his second bullet, the big beasts looked at us with pricked-up ears and dignifiedly trotted off into the woods...
That afternoon I watched from a hill the burning of Drvar and counted 80 German planes that bombed the surrounding cliffs. In the evening an old peasant a Serb of ancient make, hung a kettle on a chain above the wood fire lit on the earthen floor of his hut, cooked pura (corn gruel), and invited me and some 20 refugee women and children to dinner. There I saw a child, bayoneted through the right upper arm by the Germans, and listened to accounts of German atrocities...