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Cheers, Bullets. The big plane landed in Athens on a chilly Christmas Day. In the streets British troops were blasting and bayoneting ELAS riflemen out of a gasworks. In their homes, Athenians were burning furniture to keep warm. A few Greek civilians recognized and cheered the portly figure in the R.A.F. commodore's uniform as he stepped out of an armored car. Before a pink stucco building Churchill paused, waved and smiled. The fighting continued...
...Patission Street. The struggle went on all week. British troops and the British-trained Mountain Brigade methodically cleaned up street after street only to have ELAS riflemen, clad in civilian clothes, infiltrate behind them. At week's end the British-held area was still only an island in a hostile...
Quick Start. With Flanders came 29 officers, 735 enlisted men, and 9,000 tons of equipment. Next day, while fighting went on in plain view, survey parties, each including six engineer-riflemen, set out to plot the new field. Within 24 hours they had bulldozed enough coral gravel to fill in 600 shell craters, and the first P47 Thunderbolt fighter landed...
...reputation of being an authority on Chinese affairs. He studied in books and at first hand. His lean, leathery figure, bedroll and knapsack slung over his shoulder, became a familiar one, tramping across China's flat, dusty, northern countryside. He liked to mingle with the chiupa, the rugged riflemen who, since the Manchu dynasty was overthrown (1911), have borne the burden of their nation's endless civil wars...
...assigned to a front-line infantry battalion in the Fifth Army in Italy, and since my division has been up front I have been up with them. I have seen much small-arms fire, and at times when the riflemen were pinned down by machine-gun fire, the other aid men and I have left our slit trenches to give aid to our wounded buddies. At the same time we saw our litter bearers risking their lives trying to evacuate the casualties from the field. Several of us were awarded the Bronze Star for heroism in combat...