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...Columbus Junction...
...last General Sun Li-jen kicked off to clear the road to the junction with the paved Burma highway at Mongyu. We went up to watch. An infantry company lay waiting on a hill a mile from the Pinghai pocket, while below two tank units rolled back & forth through the Jap positions, machine-gunning and chewing up the banana thickets. Then Chinese infantry groped in to hunt for snipers. It was good to see these Chinese troops. They had fed well for a full year, their uniforms were clean, their helmets sat jauntily on their heads...
...first American, Brigadier General George W. Sliney, hiked in on foot with a platoon of Chinese troops from the Burma side. The cocky little foot soldiers who had mopped up the north Burma jungle saw a knot of blue-grey, raggle-taggle men at the junction and wanted to fire on them. Sliney threw himself in front of the Bren gun. They were Chinese from the other side of the block and they cheered and yelled as the American walked...
Turbulent and clear in its headwaters, the Missouri changes its character after its junction with the turbid waters of the Yellowstone, changes again as it meanders through the prairies to earn its nickname of "Big Muddy" and empty at last into the Mississippi ten miles above St. Louis. The longest U.S. river (2,470 miles), it is also one of the most dangerous in flood. Forever seeking its lost channel (it once flowed north to Hudson Bay), the Missouri is also the hungriest of U.S. rivers, with a yearly menu of "ten thousand acres of good rich farming land, several...
...value when coupled with an offensive. The Germans fired salvos of V15 and V-25, and a shorter-ranged, smaller version of V-2 as they would have used heavy artillery in advance of an assault. Their effectiveness was obvious: even haphazard strikes could do military damage aplenty in junction towns crowded with men and materials. The enemy claimed to have poured them on Antwerp, Brussels and Liège without mercy...