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...horse, that was a bitter period. One day he visited Fifth Army headquarters before Cassino, borrowed Mark Clark's Packard, and in this conspicuous vehicle rode recklessly up to the front lines. When he could ride no farther he got out and walked, erect, though mortar shells were bursting all around. More than once, Patton had said that he wanted to die on the battlefield. Man in Armor. A cavalryman by training and by temperament, California-born George Patton was the medieval man on horseback-in mechanized armor. Even before his country was at war, he wanted to joust...
...last April he climbed a 400-foot escarpment with an assaulting infantry battalion. At the top the attack faltered under a storm of artillery, mortar and rifle fire. But Doss stayed at the exposed summit for hours, lowered 75 wounded men down the rock walls to safety before descending himself, haggard, dirty, miraculously alive. For weeks, after that, he was in and ahead of the front lines. Twice he was wounded. Grenade fragments ripped his legs, knocked him down and out of action. But when other corpsmen tried to carry him back, he crawled off the litter, sent them...
...devouring was the battle of France that General Eisenhower needed every month, for replacements alone: 36,000 small arms, 700 mortars, 500 tanks, 2,400 vehicles, 100 field pieces, 8,000,000 rounds of mortar and artillery ammunition...
...take John Walker, who faced Jap mortar fire with the Marines landing in the Palaus and who almost lost his life on Leyte when a Jap bomb killed three men in the same hut with him. This week in Yokosuka harbor he watched the Rising Sun sink and the Stars and Stripes rise on the battleship Nagato, last capital ship of the once-mighty Jap Navy. A bomb had blasted a hole in her main deck "as big as a tennis court" and everywhere there was "the feeling of ruin and decay...
Community Bricks. In the center of Berlin, within a circle about five miles across, the destruction is what the army calls complete. Here the buildings are only shells or piles of brick and mortar dust. Yet even here it is only the buildings that are destroyed-not the materials of the buildings. Much of the brick and stone, including the marble walls of the Reichs Chancellery, can be used again. A sign on a brick pile says: "These bricks are the property of the city of Berlin. Persons taking them away will be punished." The bullet-clipped trees...