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From Femina Morta ("Dead Woman's Corner"), U.S. tanks and infantry on the Anzio front punched within two miles of the Appian Way. Along the whole beachhead front, attacks great & small flared up and died. The Allied forces were still stalled. But in the air, infantrymen saw some cheer...
...speech, as the one in which he was quoted as saying: "This stuff about tremendous losses [in the invasion] is tommyrot." But that comment was no gush of rash optimism; in context it was a simple statement of Bradley's faith in the fighting qualities of U.S. infantrymen...
...Zealand infantrymen found there were still Germans on hand. The defenders were veterans of the excellent 1st Parachute Division. Their order: Hold at all costs...
...fortnight's fighting by Chinese and U.S. infantrymen had all but pushed the Singapore-seasoned Jap 18th Division out of the 1,800-sq. mi. Hukawng Valley (described by Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell as a "rathole"). Chinese prepared to push on into the more hospitable Mo-gaung Valley. Their asserted mission is to clear the new Ledo (northern) road into China (TIME...
...platoon sergeant he led men across the blood-dyed Rapido River three times, and three times had to pull back before overwhelming enemy strength. In combat reports Kelly is officially credited with killing at least 40 Germans. Admiring fellow infantrymen rib him as "Commando" Kelly, or "The One-Man Army...