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...distant depth charges were being dropped." The U.S. cruiser Salem, flagship of the Sixth Fleet, put a team of doctors and medical aides ashore. They reported: "The silence is broken only by the cries of the injured, and the crunch beneath the shoes of the stretcher bearers." Said Earl Mountbattan of Burma, NATO Mediterranean commander: "Cephalonia looks as if a giant hand had smashed its buildings to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Rescue in the Dust | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

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