Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...September 1943 Adolf Hitler, presumably, still wears his old uniform. His armies have lost Africa and the Mediterranean, are retreating in Russia. His cities lie in ruins, his satellites are ratting. The people he conquered are whetting vengeance's knife. The democracies he despised are readying mighty blows...
Britain's capable Minister of Food Lord Woolton said that Britons could not expect increased rations. Reason: "We are planning an attack" and food must be "guarded for the great tasks that lie ahead." Such a statement implied that the mightiest, most hazardous invasion of all, the invasion from Britain, was approaching...
...around picking fuses out of mines. He dug up 37 of them with his bayonet and then marked them with toilet paper. No normal guy would do that." "The radio two nights ago said Troina had been captured," a lieutenant said. "We must have taken Troina; our broadcasters never lie." By now it was dark and we prepared for our nightly attack on Troina. On the opposite side of the road at the other end of the culvert, Major Chuck Horner, whose battalion was to put in the attack, had set up his phones...
...soldiers from the rest of the men and go forward in a low crouch, shifting from side to side, as if they were bloodhounds sniffing a trail. Suddenly 50 yards from the trench the officer's hand flew out by his side and urgently motioned his men to lie down. Then the officer crawled forward through the bare wheat and around small rocks...
...moment we were off, straight down the road as if we had nothing about which to worry. Off the road a little way we observed a grave, placarded with a small square wooden sign on which was a cross and the words, "Hier Ruhen Soldaten USA" (Here lie soldiers of the U.S.A.). A few yards farther on we saw a big cross with a German helmet stuck on it like a scarecrow...