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...rearguard of the Wehrmacht fought stubbornly and well, strongly entrenched with machine guns and 88-mm. guns, sowing its path of retreat with mines and demolition charges. But the rearguard could not hold; it could only delay-in the north, the center and the east-the steady pressure of the British and Americans toward Messina...
...Japs, well knowing that loss of the commanding ridges above Salamaua would seal its doom, fought desperately. To counter the Allied guns they had a few 75-mm. and 6-in. guns, but for the most part relied on their bombproof burrows, mortars and machine guns...
When the pain is a superficial ache or burning that gets worse when the patient sits or lies down, it is pretty sure to be arthritis or rheumatism. A simple way to tell arthritis from rheumatism is a blood sedimentation test: if the sedimentation rate is less than 10 mm. an hour, it is probably rheumatism...
...tanks came out of the hills, reached and crossed the Gela-Vittoria road, shot up some amphibious trucks, lobbed shells over divisional headquarters toward the shore 800 yards from the tanks. The defending units had no infantry, no antitank guns to stop the tanks. There was only artillery - 105-mm. howitzers, designed for other work-and Bofors anti-aircraft guns...
...Deeds. "Escort Carrier B," in four sustained engagements, attacked eleven U-boats, scored two sure kills, four "very probables" and four "probables." Her planes allowed no enemy submarine to get closer than 18 miles to the convoy. Her casualties: one TBF damaged by 20-mm. ack-ack from a U-boat, its radio operator wounded...