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After five and a half days the Germans retired. Captain Kerley's outfit spotted a long line of tanks and guns moving out, radioed the range. This time U.S. shells were merciless. The lost battalion could report: "Total destruction." By night Americans were back in Mortain, and a rescue battalion had worked itself up the hillside. The regiment's colonel heard then of Kerley's talk with the SS officer...
Cowering in a ditch, Blazus saw the merciless planes race up & down the column, cannon blazing and bombs dropping, until the whole two miles was a red, blazing tangle of shattered bodies and wrecked vehicles. Then the planes hunted down the escaped tanks. Concluded Blazus...
...thousands. This time the chiselers were out in full force, crashing their way past the ushers, squatting in the press seats, the boxes, sneaking on to the floor. Blue haze reached up to the rafters. The band, the organ, then the band again, played & played. Suddenly, in the merciless heat, the Klieg lights flicked on, like a mammoth oven's heat being turned up. The crowd whinnied, groaned and sat fanning languidly, gulping more & more cokes. As the clock reached nine, a tall, grey man, Carl Craven, director of the Chicago Light Opera Company, tried to lash the wilting...
...wore on, the beleaguered paratroops, under merciless enemy pressure, began to steal glum looks at their watches. At 12:14 a weary officer muttered: "They'll never make it now." At that moment, through the crash and rattle of gunfire and mortar shells, came a distant skirling of bagpipes, the Commandos' signal. A paratroop bugler answered with "Defaulters,"* indicating that the road immediately ahead had Germans on it, and that the first Commando-men should go around them...
...Finland, apparently on the ragged edge of dropping out of the war, the U.S. applied a merciless diplomatic pincer. (The Russian planes, blasting Kotka and Helsinki, were the other pincer-prong.) Secretary of State Cordell Hull gave the Finns a final warning to get out of the war (see p. 34). This was patient Cordell Hull's umpteenth move toward this effect...