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Reported his personal physician, Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire: on his 62nd birthday, Franklin Roosevelt was in better health than at any time since he has been in the White House...
Vice Admiral Raymond Spruance, chief of the recently created Central Pacific Command; Vice Admiral J. H. Hoover and his opposite number, Major General Willis Henry Hale, chiefs respectively of landbased Navy and Army aircraft; Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, who directs Spruance's amphibious operations; Marine Major General Holland Smith, boss of the Marine and Army troops that Turner puts ashore...
Battle of Boots. The guerrillas have few trucks and armored cars, have to make up the lack with bravery and footwork. In the ice and cold of the Balkan winter they need, first of all, good shoes. That is why, rear Lipovac in Western Bosnia, shoeless Partisans attacked a column of 400 lorries transporting German reinforcements, hit them fast and hard, then withdrew to the snowy mountains. Hundreds of Partisans at last had shoes, taken from Hitler's hated soldiers...
Until recently Colonel General von Kleist held back ten armored divisions, probably in the Minsk-Brest-Litovsk area; by now he has probably had to throw them against the Russian avalanche. In France, in addition to the 30-odd coastal-defense divisions, twelve divisions stand in the rear, supposedly between Amiens and Sedan, waiting to counterattack Allied forces landing in the west. These forces are formidable but they are not true reserves: they cannot be readily spared for duty elsewhere...
...Pulkovo Hills and south Oranienbaum, the Germans fought their hardest: their trenches were deep, mine fields vast, artillery plentiful. Now little was left of these defenses, and the snowy road across the hills was blotched with dark, ragged craters. Over the rear German positions, pounded by Russian bombers, black ack-ack puffs spotted the milky...