Word: infernos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inferno. We went into one barracks after another. So many men were sick and possibly dying of starvation and beatings that they merely lay or leaned or sat shoulder to shoulder, too weak to do more than grin glassily. It was here that we even found some Hindus...
...this time the cheering went on, and we were being forcibly mobbed by hundreds of men strong as only the half-insane can be, kissed and kissed again by men who stank like the inferno, obviously sick toward death of all kinds of illnesses...
...split second the acetate ignited and burst into a roaring inferno. Cries of fright changed to screams of terror and of mortal agony that were soon drowned by the leaping flames and the bursting of hand grenades tossed into the open doorways...
British and American pilots wondered how any German could live in the inferno below. Said fine flyer: "The Ruhr is lit up, messed up and ruined. The hearts of the cities are dead." Perhaps the main targets - Münster, Osnabrück, Rheine, Coesfeld, Siegen, among many others-were now only names for history, the relics of air power's biggest day in its biggest week...
...come home from the inferno and find a placid bunch of people who don't even know there's a war on. No bombers flew over us in a storm of death, chums. No snipers lurked at the corner of 3rd and Market; no ack-ack batteries picked us off in our penthouses. But that isn't our fault. It's a tribute to you. You kept us safe and we appreciate...