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Kenneth Olson, dean of Northwestern University's school of journalism, planned to set up a model city room and have his students publish a daily Shrivenham Post on local newspaper presses. Dr. Douglas Whitaker, Stanford zoologist, created a minor Army supply problem by ordering 1,000 frogs. Among others...
...devastated areas of northeastern France and northwestern Germany unrolled before him. Over the wastes of Berlin, over the roofless houses and the crumbling church towers, Pilot Myers banked and circled and finally settled down at the airport, where honor guards had been waiting since early morning...
Four Way Partition. The partition of Germany into occupation zones, long both a problem and a mystery, was a mystery no longer. In Berlin the Russians would control the central city plus the industrial northern and eastern sections. Britain would control the western and northwestern suburbs, the U.S. the south and southeastern suburbs. In western and southern Germany the U.S., Britain and France would occupy zones comprising about half of the country's area, more than half its. population, less than half its food resources...
...lean West Pointer from Iowa. When Bataan fell in 1942 he took to the hills and organized one of the best guerrilla teams in the Philippines. By the time the U.S. forces came back, Volckmann and his band had already cleared the Japs from a large portion of northwestern Luzon's mountains...
...last August he suddenly left his headquarters on the Western Front, which he had just taken over from Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt. With some of his staff, Kluge drove to a spot on a lonely road near Avranches in northwestern France. There he waited, hour after hour, for a party of U.S. Third Army officers with whom he had secretly arranged to discuss surrender. They did not appear. Fearing betrayal, Kluge hurried back to his headquarters. Awaiting him there was an order to report to Hitler in Berlin. Kluge got into a car, swallowed poison and died...