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Just after noon on the second day a 20-year-old Austrian lieutenant stumbled from a cellar, surrendered the last organized remnant of Germans, exhausted, grimy, self-dubbed Kriegsverlängerer (war prolongers). From other, forgotten basements crawled pale, cadaverous, smelly, lice-ridden villagers. For weeks they had lived underground on popcorn, dried beans and water; now, amid the ruins of their homes, they cackled with hysterical relief...
...Blue Beach. The Japs may have thought this the main show. At close range they opened fire with machine guns and a light cannon and the U.S. loss was heavy. The fire destroyed eleven of 16 American boats, killed or wounded most of the 150 expendables, forced the remnant to turn back...
...lieutenant, a fighter pilot attached to the carrier Lexington, when the Japs came over on a February day in 1942. Alone against nine bombers roaring in for a kill, Butch O'Hare shot down five, damaged a sixth, scattered the remnant. The Navy and the U.S. were proud. Summoned from the South Pacific to Washington, Butch O'Hare got the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Roosevelt for "one of the most daring, if not the most daring, single action in the history of combat aviation." Of his exploit, Butch only said: "There wasn't much...
Decimated and divided between Baltic and Norwegian waters, the remnant of the German Navy now has only a limited nuisance value...
...they were growing. They were led by Italian Army officers, stiffened by escaped British prisoners of war, aided by the countryside's peasantry. They controlled villages ungarrisoned by the enemy. They sabotaged rail and road communications vital to German transport. Against them the Nazis rallied the bedraggled remnant of Benito Mussolini's blackshirts, decreed the death penalty. In Italy, too, the Germans were fighting a two-front...