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...They were ignored: Nazi officers had orders to shoot, any man who attempted to retreat or give up. The attack was run off in the classic form that an army can achieve when it has overwhelming air power, plenty of good artillery, plenty of well-trained, hard-fighting infantrymen...
Germans' Guess. In this division of duties, the more spectacular role went to U.S. VII Corps troops, battling toward Cherbourg. Infantrymen of the 4th Division smashed into Montebourg, and the Germans decided this was the main drive, in a straight line for Cherbourg...
Comeback at Biak. Some 1400 miles south of Guam, General Douglas Mac- Arthur's last important island hop in his leapfrogging New Guinea campaign was progressing-but it was no walkover. Sixth Army infantrymen had been all but stalled in their drive along the coastal flats of Biak Island in the Schouten group, aimed at the capture of three airfields within heavy-bomber range of the Philippines. They had to fall back, call for reinforcements, amend their tactics. Last week they drove inland, outflanked the Japs, captured Mokmer airfield...
...There were three pistol shots from somewhere. The tanks stopped and I saw one of the infantrymen pointing his gun down a side road. There a helmetless German stumbled out into the open, hands in the air. His right wrist had been shattered by a bullet and from his upraised arm the hand dangled by a few bloody shreds of raw flesh. A civilian came up, searched him. Our troops waved him to the rear, went...
...Newest Allies. One clear reason for the spectacular Allied advance was the heroic determination of the troops Hitler had to stop. Almost unanimously, correspondents picked as their fighting favorites the French troops-Moroccan Goums, Senegalese infantrymen and Algerian riflemen serving under French officers and noncoms. Some of them had actually fought on opposite sides in the Fighting French-Vichy squabbles in Syria three years...