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...first U.S. troops to set foot on Axis Europe were paratroops. Their high half-boots hit the enemy soil early in the moonlit night of July 9, 1943-hours before Allied landing barges disgorged infantry, tanks and artillery on Sicily's shore...
...signal came that night. There was the moan of aircraft in the moonlit night, bombs began to rain on the enemy's position. For half an hour shells screamed overhead, throwing up a bright light of flame when they landed...
...coastal end, but farther south, near the Hill of Evil Men, Montgomery's 51st Highlanders streaked across the moonlit, wreck-strewn desert. What was left of Rommel's artillery tried to hold them back. The British infantry swept on. Dazed and shell-shocked Germans surrendered, turned and ran, or died in the sand beside their 88-mm. guns. Rommel's dam had burst...
...moonlit, light-lanced sky, Allied planes ranged back & forth, their routes marked by bursting bombs behind the Axis front line. West of the Chianti bottle the Axis armies ponderously gave ground...
Since Jap bombs gutted the earth which bore Confucius-the earth which for millenniums had been worked by patient, quiet peasants-delicate filigree landscapes, white herons over blue lakes at dawn, shimmering moonlit waters of Li Tai-po are less popular themes in Chinese art. Nowadays Chinese artists turn their talents against the little monkeys without tails who have ravaged their country. Sometimes their weapon is anger, but often it is the peculiarly Chinese weapon of mockery...