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...been dropped in one week. For three months ago the Luftwaffe was fighting every raid with all it had-many bombers were shot down, and many so shot up that they required extensive repairs. Again & again the R.A.F. and Eighth Air Force had to take several days off to lick their wounds-and they cannot take much time out if they are to deliver 16,000 tons of bombs a week...
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...Father. The chances of a man in Britain siring four children at a single birth are 600,000-to-1. Auburn-haired auburn-skinned Sergeant Bill had made it. Life, he felt at that moment, had no problems he couldn't lick. He was not married to Norah Carpenter, the English mother of his quadruplets. He had a wife, Eleanor, back in Pittsburgh, whom he had married (after a three-year acquaintance) just before he went overseas. But he had written Eleanor long ago, told her that their marriage had been a mistake, that he was in love with...
Sergeant Delphia E. Garris: "It's just something that has got to be done. We have got to lick those bastards in order to get out of the army. That's our main thought-get rid of the Germans in order to get out of the army...