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Next ripple in the advancing tide was the onetime castle of Baron Munchausen, legendary apostle of the apocryphal. Hard by, in storied Hameln, the tanks had to flatten a fifth of the turreted town before it yielded. Unharmed was the 17th-century house from which the Pied Piper beguiled Hameln's children to their...
Beyond the Roer. From the air in a Piper Cub the tank drive was a thing of the sheerest military beauty: First came a long row of throbbing tanks moving like heavy dark beetles over the green cabbage fields of Germany in a wide swath-many, many tanks in a single row abreast. Then, a suitable distance behind, came another great echelon of tanks even broader, out of which groups would wheel from their brown mud tracks in green fields to encircle and smash fire at some stubborn strong point. Behind this came miles of trucks full of troops, maneuvering...
John Dos Passos, novelist (Manhattan Transfer, Big Money) turned LIFE war correspondent in the Philippines, was reported knocked cold, gashed in the head, given a black eye and slight concussion when hit on the head by the wingtip of a landing Piper Cub plane. Correspondent Dos Passos merely noted that he suffered "a nasty little accident (almost got my block knocked off by a plane...
Best sellers: 1) the feathery, civilian-type Piper Cub (used for pilot training); 2) the puddle-jumping Taylorcrafts, Fairchilds, Aeroncas and Ryans (used for screening cadets and artillery observation). No sale: advanced trainers, multi-motored bombers, fighters. Reasons: suci craft are too expensive, some are altogether too "hot" for the average civilian pilot...
...McAuliffe could report to the Ninth Air Force that its Lightnings and Thunderbolts had done a "simply tremendous" job of messing up enemy tanks and guns. Trains of C-47 transports had come over to parachute supplies (eventually more than 1,500 tons were dropped). A surgeon arrived by Piper Cub. More medical help was coming. There was a heart-warming Christmas gift: air pictures showing a ring of burning enemy tanks and vehicles all around Bastogne...