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...correspondent in Normandy. The bomb was pictured as a monstrous thing: up to 90 tons in overall weight, with an explosive head of ten to 15 tons. Its rockets would propel it through the stratosphere at 40,000 feet. Its 250-mile range would bring Birmingham, Manchester, Hull into peril...
...long as the Red Armies delayed an attack on East Prussia, the exit gate for the German Armies in the Baltic provinces stood open. But the Nazis were in dire peril. Having carved a huge salient in Lithuania, General Bagramian was closer last week to Riga than General Chernyakhovsky, at the Suwalki triangle, was to Konigsberg. Yet a breakthrough to Riga would bring in only part of the bag. Pulling the drawstring at Konigsberg might be more difficult, but it would pay off more handsomely...
...strong two years ago, had worn down to a wheezy 5,000 machines, and many of these were idle for lack of spare parts. More than ever, China traveled and hauled by foot, mule and human carrier. More than ever, the lack of mobility hobbled her armies, sharpened the peril of famine, loosened the bonds of central government...
...German right was scrambling up the Italian boot so rapidly that the pursuing Allies-making 15 miles a day along the flat Tyrrhenian coastal plain-had trouble keeping contact. The German center in the hills and the left along the Adriatic, falling back more slowly, faced dire peril. Through the flagging right the Allies might knife suddenly eastward, surround the rest of the Germans...
...strongholds in front of the Alban Hills. From Artena, the Fifth Army's big guns shelled Valmontone and adjacent stretches of Via Casilina. So the main escape route to Rome of General von Flietinghoff's Tenth Army remnants, dropping back from Cassino, became a road of dire peril...