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...Leipzig, it was a different story. Civilians, including "werewolf" boys of 14 and 15, fought with the German soldiers. The boys broke and ran when fired on by tanks; but it took the Americans 48 hours to mop up the outskirts. At week's end they were still faced by Leipzig's powerful batteries of antiaircraft guns...
...Sofia radio casually announced a piece of news: flashing-eyed, mop-maned Georgi Dimitroff, storied revolutionary, had come home at last. After 22 years of exile, the burly, brimstony Bulgarian had taken his rightful place as the No. 1 Communist in the Fatherland Front, his country's dominating political coalition...
...Then, a suitable distance behind, came another great echelon of tanks even broader, out of which groups would wheel from their brown mud tracks in green fields to encircle and smash fire at some stubborn strong point. Behind this came miles of trucks full of troops, maneuvering perfectly to mop up bypassed tough spots. Then came the field artillery to pound hard knots into submission. From the flanks sped clouds of tank destroyers cutting across the landscape in wild swoops that hit the enemy and cut off communications with bewildering speed...
Died. Jacques Doriot, 57, pudgy, mop-haired, ex-Communist, French Fascist founder of the pro-Nazi French People's Party, who once demanded that Vichy declare war on the U.S. and Britain; from the fire of low-flying Allied planes which attacked his car (according to German reports); in southwestern Germany...
...continuing mop-up of enemy remnants in the Marianas, a Japanese was captured, so badly wounded that he could not survive without a blood transfusion. A company commander, who knew that his men had been so sickened by Jap tactics that they believed the only good Jap was a dead Jap, made the gesture of asking for volunteers. Every man in the company offered to give blood...