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...only other club which has shown strength has been Standish, which, owing to its 58 to 13 rout of Company B, resides in third place with a record of one and one. H.V. Spanos' 22 markers have sparked the new Freshmen, who are tied with Adams and Company...
London was still being scourged by buzz-bombs, but Allied airpower was smiting the Germans with greater force, the Germans were close to rout on the Russian front, being mauled without letup in Italy. Even though there was a stalemate on the Normandy front it was a time for rejoicing by Britain, which had once stood alone against the Axis. It was also a time to tell the world that the British Empire was still the Empire. Said Winston Churchill...
...rout the Japs from their caves in Saipan's limestone hills, the attackers used every weapon in the varied U.S. arsenal, from flamethrowers and bazookas to 16-inch naval guns and 2,000-lb. bombs...
...Germans in Italy gave up all pretense of holding a continuous front. Along the last few roads open to the north they scuttled back in the worst rout of a German army on a western front since Tunisia. Allied forces raced up the peninsula after them, making up to 25 miles a day in near-bloodless pursuit. Town after town in Umbria, ancient land of the little-known Etruscans, fell virtually unharmed...
...unit, moving out along the muddy Laruma River, fought it out with Japs for two days, destroyed five of their pill boxes, crossed the river with fixed bayo nets and put their disorganized enemies to rout...