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Colonel Gunn told his story to General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson and his U.S. air commander, Lieut. General Ira Eaker. They made a quick decision. Within twelve hours 38 Flying Fortresses were speeding toward Bucharest; more soon followed. At Bucharest's airport the bombers took aboard the 1,100-odd men and brought them back to Italy. Fifty were wounded, 17 on crutches and ten on stretchers. All were happy. So were their families in the U.S., who were promptly notified...
...boats piling up in Mediteranean harbors, had nervously trumpeted their findings to the world. Then distinguished visitors began arriving in Italy for front-row seats-Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. Navy Secretary James Forrestal, Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson, Supply Chief Lieut. General Brehon Somervell, General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean, announced he had moved his headquarters to Italy from North Africa...
...been waiting for a sizable beat from Bari, Italy: Correspondent Joseph Morton's story of a question & answer interview-by-letter with Yugoslavia's Communist Marshal Josip Broz (Tito). But the story was squashed under the political censorship of 224-lb. General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson's Mediterranean command...
...This is the American Broadcasting Station in Europe. . . . We Americans are here to join with the BBC in telling the truth of this war to our friends in Europe -and to our enemies. . . ." He warned against premature action, promised that Gen. Eisenhower from England and Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson from the Middle East would jointly announce the invasion...
...clock the scene in Gallery E 15, where the famed Maitland F. Griggs Italian paintings hung on special exhibition, was serenely normal: gallerygoers quietly strolled over the cork floor, paused, peered at small pictures invisibly screwed to the walls. At 3:15, a uniformed guard made his routine round of inspection. His eyes widened in horror: only screw holes marked the spot where Simone's St. Thomas had hung. He rushed to his superior. No gong clanged, no revolvers flashed from holsters. People leaving the museum were closely scrutinized. (Frisking or detaining on suspicion on such occasions...