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...pieces battle tossed and tumbled from house to house, basement to basement. Every one of San Vittore's 200-odd buildings was wrecked. The Germans fired machine guns, machine pistols, rifles and rifle grenades from every window and balcony. The Americans answered with bazookas, grenades, quick-firing 37-mm. antitank guns. So close and confused was the melee that officers talking over field telephones had to hush their voices lest the enemy in the same or the next building overhear...
...means of well-established formulas, for example, an individual's face can be reconstructed accurately from his skull, his height calculated with 99% precision from certain single bones (e.g., a man's height is usually 1.88 times the length of his thigh bone plus 813.06 mm.). A person's bones "almost literally punch a time clock" as he grows. Sure clues are the uniting of long bones to their caps and the successive disappearance of sutures (seams) in the skull, which occur at precisely known stages in a man's life. Some Krogman performances...
Modified to pack a 75-mm., the B-25 has a sinister look. There is no plexiglass in the nose, only a smooth metal face with one angry, flaring nostril, from which the gun muzzle protrudes. The gun is mounted low on the left, fired by the pilot at the right. It is fixed, aimed by pointing the plane. The 20-lb. shells are loaded manually...
...Gilbert Bundy, onetime Esquire and New Yorker cartoonist now assigned to do war sketches for King Features Syndicate, started in later. About 75 yards offshore his boat received a direct hit, probably from a Jap 90-mm. mortar. All but one man in it were either killed or blown into the water. Bundy was unharmed...
...Marines landed on Choiseul at night, 18 hours after the Treasury Islands attack began. There were about 2,000 of them, and their heaviest weapons were 60-mm. mortars, but their job was to make a noise like a couple of divisions, to divert attention from the Bougainville landings. They succeeded: the Jap radio reported 20,000 Allied troops on Choiseul...