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...focused on a newspaper. Outside, a huge crowd swirled and pushed, straining against police lines. The crowd, dressed in its Sunday best, burst into song: first, Roll Out the Barrel; then There'll Always Be an England. Finally, the pudgy man, not relinquishing his cheroot, shuffled to the rear platform, acknowledged the crowd's cheers, and asked for Tipperary. The crowd gave it to him, while Winston Churchill beat time...
...could recall any other campaign so deliberately pitched in low key. At Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station the only concession to ceremony was a small and ancient green carpet on the platform. Not more than 25 onlookers, mostly idle switchmen, watched Tom Dewey and his wife clamber aboard the rear platform...
...battle of Mons will rank as one of the most decisive actions in our campaign in Europe, for it was here that the German rear guard was smashed. Regardless of its importance, however, it will rank as one of the most curious battles of the war-curious in that neither the German nor American commands, both marching north on parallel roads, expected a battle of such magnitude...
...Ruediger von Heyking had surrendered. When the masters of the master race capitulated, the rank & file became totally bewildered. Some fled south to escape through the fields but fell in droves before our small-arms fire. Within the perimeter organized by our armored division around Mons no front or rear existed. Headquarters troops and MPs who normally do not do any fighting captured over 600 thoroughly demoralized Germans. Confused and rioting German enlisted men often broke away from officers to surrender. Some German officers sent notes to our lines saying that they would surrender 50 men an hour...
Killed in Action. Lieut. Commander Manning Marius Kimmel, 31, Annapolis-trained oldest son of Pearl Harbor's Rear Admiral Husband Kimmel (awaiting court-martial), winner of the Silver Star for "sinking of a significant amount of Japanese shipping"; aboard his command, the Robalo, 28th U.S. submarine lost during...