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...worse than Burma. Major General Innis P. ("Bull") Swift, corps commander, had sent his divisions driving through backbreaking country that was all gorges and razor-backed ridges and mountain peaks that prodded the clouds. One division had advanced only 1,000 yards in four weeks, lost and retook one hill four times. The world may never have seen steeper fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Engineers' War | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...which got bruised one day in a fight against Panther tanks. One doughfoot who hid in a rain barrel saw Alsatian villagers pointing out U.S.-held houses to the Germans. When he got back and told the story, Thunderbolts and artillery reduced the village to rubble. Later the Yanks retook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, WESTERN FRONT: What Are You Doing? | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...Armored retook Saint-Vith, a town of bloody and gallant memory. North of there, the Germans still stood on Belgian soil in a small bend of the border. They were smacked by the famed 1st Infantry, the stout peg which had held down the north shoulder of Rundstedt's salient. The doughboys attacked at 4 a.m. in a heavy snowstorm, without artillery preparation, and gained two miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, WESTERN FRONT: What Are You Doing? | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...took over as $40,000-a-year executive editor two months ago. At first the rumbles were confined to the Herald-American building, where he was engaged in shaking up his staff. Then he got out on the street, in trick headlines. Sample Ruppel banner when the Allies retook a German town: THINGS LOOK BETTER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ruppel Rumpus | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

Chennault threw all the weight of his Fourteenth Air Force and his Chinese-American Composite Wing into close support of Chinese ground troops which kept the Japs around Hengyang closely invested and even retook two towns near Hengyang which the Japs had grabbed. Chennault's flyers gave the Japs a dose of their own 1941 medicine, by destroying 26 planes at a single field, without loss to themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF CHINA: The Forgotten War | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

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