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...Grousing-'bitching,' as they call it-is left behind in the rear areas...
...Commandos!" From the rear, snatches of song floated forward: Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah, Someone's in the kitchen I know-oh-oh, Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah, Strummin' on the old banjo...
Already the Allies, from the hills they held, could see the towers of Florence some six miles away. When Jerry pulled out of these defenses he was expected to fall back around the city, leaving only a light rear-guard line. Allied artillery was carefully avoiding Florence, almost as precious to the world as Rome itself...
...elaborate mine fields and gun positions off the former U.S. Naval Station at Piti. Casualties would have been heavy if the marines had landed there. Instead, they smartly flanked these and many other defenses. But the enemy was still no setup. He was fighting the same kind of savage rear-guard action he had fought on Saipan, where 21,036 Jap corpses had been buried, where 3,414 Americans were dead or missing...
...Turkey were discussing how to avoid hostilities, another to the effect that Turkey was planning to invade Bulgaria. Well might the Bulgarians worry. If the Turks were entering the war to fight, Bulgaria might become a Balkan battleground as Turkish armies attempted to smash their way up in the rear of groggy Rumania...