Word: pilsen
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Cheering wildly, Czechs in the grandstands threw their silver cigaret lighters to the Austrians. So many gifts of butter, meat, poultry, chocolate and liquor piled in on the Axa Hotel, where the Austrians were staying, that the management turned the lobby into a temporary warehouse. Flags flew in Brno. Pilsen begged the Austrians to visit its best hotel. And in two coal mines of Ostrava, miners promised to work two extra shifts digging coal for Austria. In hockey-happy Czechoslovakia the joke of the week was a cartoon showing a man carrying a bag overflowing with rare food. "Stop...
...Pilsen, smartly polished troops of our 2nd Infantry staged a review in the ancient city square for visiting Red dignitaries and soldiers who received American combat medals. Afterwards Reds and doughs with arms about one another's shoulders careened in jeeps through the Pilsen streets...
...gathering momentum for a push into Bohemia, and south of Bohemia Marshal Tolbukhin was thrusting along the Danube toward Linz. If Tolbukhin can meet the U.S. Third and Seventh Armies in the Danube valley, perhaps between Linz and Regensburg, then Bohemia (and the war industries of Prague and Pilsen) will be cut off from the Nazis' Alpine bastion...
...attacks increased in weight, the cost rose. In night raids on Pilsen and Mannheim, the R.A.F. lost 55 bombers-nearly 10% of the raiding force. The R.A.F. is pleased when losses run as low as 3% to 5%, as they recently have. It begins to worry when losses approach 10%, the officially accepted dividing line between profitable and wasteful operations. At points which the Germans chose to defend strongly, they demonstrated last week that their ack-ack and fighter protection was sufficient to cause the R.A.F. real concern...
...R.A.F. raids of the week: aircraft plants (Stuttgart, Rostock), shipyards and docks (Hamburgh, St.-Nazaire, Le Havre, Kristiansand, Boulogne), munitions plants (Pilsen), key political point (Vichy-where leaflets were scattered...