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...first times since El Alamein, Monty had his tanks out ahead of the infantry. The attack rolled forward irresistibly-for five miles. Then it stalled in front of a murderous screen of German 88-mm. guns, mortars, cleverly emplaced tanks firing like mobile pillboxes. The tanks could not plow into the wall of fire that faced them; they had to be drawn back without achieving a major clash with German armor. Correspondents applauded Monty's economy of casualties...
...George Marshall's super-popgun is a 9-mm. corto (short) Italian-made Beretta automatic. As a weapon it is nothing special, but the General likes...
...field soldier, General "Ike" slept in a tent with a cot and bedroll. Most of the time he was in danger areas; twice German barrages fell in districts he had just left. Once a flak tower from which he had been observing U.S. artillery fire took hits from 88-mm. guns just after he had climbed down...
...From Normandy: It was the afternoon that Cherbourg fell, and the fighting was still pretty hot. We went a little way and a 20-mm. began shooting at us from be hind. Most of the G.I.s hit the dirt behind a wall. Ernie, who was talking to a couple of them, kept standing and kept his hands in his pockets. I watched his face as he went down the street and he was scared all right. A little later we got mixed up in a tank-v.-pillbox duel and the pillbox knocked the tank out right outside...
...until we hit a reef, about 1,000 yards offshore. To our portside a boat had just been hit; its occupants were swimming frantically in every direction, some trying to reach other boats farther out, others heading for shore. Artillery opened up on our four boats-probably 77-mm. guns. It was poor shooting-we made it to the beach...