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...front of the seventh car, a journal (wheel bearing) burned out. With a tremendous lurch, the train snapped in two. In the rear cars, there were a few ghastly moments when the passengers' felt as if the train were floating through air. Then the crash...
...uttered the word they would not: retreat. All along the 700-mile fluid front, from the forests of Smolensk to the Sea of Azov, the Wehrmacht was falling back in what might yet be its worst defeat. Nazi bastions which a month ago were safely in the rear were now in peril. Taganrog, Yelnya, Sumy and Konotop had fallen. Smolensk, Poltava, Mariupol and Stalino (which Berlin once possessively hailed as "Russia's Essen") awaited the Red blow. For many, the blow might come within days...
...paratroops boxed them in by landing in their rear. From Rekata Bay on Santa Isabel Island, east of Vella Lavella, the Japs evacuated a long-held seaplane base-the third position they had abandoned in less than a month.* Though the heart of Japan's defense was still untouched and intact, the fatty outer layer was shrinking...
Furthermore, the No. 1 amphibious U.S. commander in the South Pacific was somewhere last week on an undisclosed assignment. When Rear Admiral Theodore Wilkinson took over amphibious operations in the Solomons, he relieved Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner. "Terrible" Turner, who carried out the landings on Guadalcanal, the Russells and New Georgia, would be expected to pop up again suddenly and violently, probably somewhere along the flank of the Jap's easternmost defenses...
...second anniversary of Pearl Harbor, will presumably be the final date on which the Army & Navy may file charges against Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Lieut. General Walter C. Short, the commanding officers on whom was placed official responsibility for that disastrous defeat...