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...Groups. Montgomery had two armies, the British First, the Canadian First. "Jake" Devers had two, the U.S. Seventh, the French Second. Bradley had three: William Simpson's Ninth, a newcomer on the front; Courtney Hodges' First (the infantry heavyweight) and George Patton's Third (the armored pile driver...
Later Joy and Cervo spotted more Germans in a hedge. "I shouted 'Oop mop' and out came Jerries. . . . When we finished clearing up the hedge, we saw more and bigger foxholes, some of them with mortars. We made the Jerries bring out their weapons and pile them, until we had 49 Jerries. . . . [The prisoners] glared at us and I glared back and shouted 'Mop oop!' and we brought back our souvenirs...
...Government is going to pile part of its vast stocks of surplus war materials up neatly in open spaces, throw a framework of wood or steel around the piles and then bolt corrugated sheet metal around the frames...
...verse of a parody of Casey Jones which China-Burma-India pilots sing: Old 87 was a pile of junk After too many hours over the Hump With her flap handle busted And her gear stove in And a great big dent in her vertical...
Goodbye Parangaricutiro. A black, craggy pile, the moving lava constantly cracks chunks off its crust, exposing a gooey, glowing mass underneath (temperature: 1,994° F.). Its approach sets houses afire. Traveling about seven yards an hour, the glacier-like ooze has already spread more than seven miles and engulfed two villages-Paricutin and Parangaricutiro...