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Rumor & Vigil. The U.S. replied to the Japs, and again the nation waited. Rumors flew. The radio tried hard to keep up: "This is a Reuter's report of a Domei broadcast picked up by the Chungking Radio...
...PAUL REUTER Seward...
Atlantic Wall. Was there or had there been an Atlantic Wall? Countering boisterous dispatches that the highly advertised defenses were "the biggest bluff of the whole war," the London Times military correspondent rumbled: "This is to do less than justice to the Allied troops." Said Reuter's Stanley Burch: "You could not make a single pinpoint on the map of the invasion beachhead not covered by crossfire from machine guns, mortars or light artillery...
...welter of grim and costly clashes one all-important fact emerged. Cabled Reuter's Moscow correspondent, Harold King: "It has been clearly demonstrated that the Wehrmacht is no longer the strongest single military force in Europe. The Red Army is superior...
...From Reuter's Correspondent Norman Thorpe came an eyewitness account of her destruction. Thorpe was aboard. "Violent explosions" sent him rushing to the quarterdeck. As the Eagle heeled over, "six-inch shells, each weighing 100 lb., tore loose from their brackets and bumped down the clifflike deck." Seamen flung themselves overboard to escape the runaway shells. Thorpe himself slid down a rope into the thick, oil-coated sea, let go, realized with horror that he had not blown enough air into his lifebelt. He thrashed his way to a cork float...