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...Army is probably as well prepared now as it ever will be with plans. The payoff will come when the storm starts and the whooping and hollering begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Soldiers' Return | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

More light on Z followed for the Germans when Coningham again used his whole force to bomb Tunis. It was the payoff. Tunis surrendered in 48 hours. He considers this his best tactical performance up to the Normandy invasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Tactician on Top | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

When Hitler came to the top the officers had gladly, if scornfully, done business with him: he had given them arms, troops, honors, for a time even victories. Now they had the payoff: short of a wholesale uprising, they were completely under the control of the Nazis, who had to fight to the last pistol bullet, because for them there could be no next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE WAR: Question Mark | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

Fetch that gin son and I'll spill payoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Down Beat's Tenth | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...Payoff. At exactly 12:17½ a tall, slim officer with a rifle slung over one shoulder scrambled up the bank of the Caen Canal. Behind him came a sweating, 21-year-old Glasgow piper, behind the piper a long line of grim-bereted Commando troops. The paratroop brigadier came up to shake Lord Lovat's hand. Their greeting was brief and British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Lord Lovat, I Presume | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

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