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After dark the 35th's volunteer "baby patrol"-a French captain, an American officer and ten G.I.s-slipped across the line, sloshed across 1,000 yards of rainswept marsh, crept into the house...
...along the grey, rainswept Norman front it was bitter, close, bloody fighting for one small position after another; battle so like the grinding attrition of the troop-saturated positional fronts of World War I that it gave some veteran officers a nightmarish feeling of "this is where I came in." It took no topflight strategist to conclude that the invasion of Western Europe was falling farther & farther behind schedule...
...British circuit was tougher, with Hope & Company (Comic Jack Pepper substituting for Jerry Colonna) "resting" from camp shows by bobbing up in hospitals, dropping in on ack-ack crews, sloshing across rainswept heaths to entertain soldiers on maneuvers. Hope's gags got around so fast he had to keep changing them, and he and Scriptwriter Hal Block ground out new ones in bumpy transit, or in hotel rooms long past midnight...
Half a million men surged all week over rainswept fields around Orel. This week the Berlin radio spoke guardedly of fighting "in the southwestern part of the town." If true, this meant the Russians were finally forcing them to abandon their easternmost strong point in the central front. To their own people, the Germans glibly explained the dogged Russian advance in terms of the Wehrmacht's policy of "elastic defense...
While the fighting in rainswept Tunisia made news last week, the battle which will decide the issue was being fought behind the lines. It was the struggle to get in reinforcements and supplies...