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West of Shavh, a rail-junction town in northern Lithuania, Red Army guns thundered. By the Berlin radio's account, the Russians "launched a new offensive with armored and battle formations after subjecting the main German defense line to a drumfire barrage of heaviest caliber." Berlin added that the penetrations achieved were "temporary...
...meeting finally broke up. Next morning, most of the Russian correspondents who were there flew to the Yugoslav front to witness the junction of the Russians with Tito. The Anglo-American correspondents, as usual, read the Russian papers...
Russia's Red Army lunged last week across the Danube into Yugoslavia. British forces landed on the coasts of Albania, on the islands of Dalmatia, inched into Greece. From two sides of the Balkan massif, Europe's two greatest powers were approaching a junction in the Balkans. Waiting at this mountainous meeting place of empires was a man who had newly risen into political history after a cryptic lifetime in the political underground: Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito. Tossed up suddenly in the slipstream of military and political movements, he was as little familiar to most...
...these are integral parts of John Lee's character. Born 57 years ago in Junction City, Kans., the son of an Iowa insurance agent, he was named after his mother, who bore the unusual name of John Clifford Hodges II (her family, vexed that she was not a boy, named her after her father, a captain in the Confederate Army). He graduated from West Point with George Patton and Lieut. General Jacob L. Devers in the class of 1909. As an Army engineer Lee served in the Philippines, built dams on the Ohio River, was aide to Major General...
...Hasselt, an important road junction in Belgium, where units of the U.S. First joined forces with the British Second Army, the British reported that they had found: 1) troops hurriedly brought down from Denmark; 2) fanatic youths, 17 and 18 years old, who had been training as Luftwaffe pilots in Holland until a fortnight...