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65. Meanwhile all Europe rumbled with revolt, which the Nazis tried to put down in Occupied France chiefly by:
"Something in this countryside suddenly exploded. . . . I flew drowned in a crop of trajectories as golden as stalks of wheat. . . . When a shell burst very near, the explosion rumbled along the plane like rock dropping through a chute."
When daylight came again the bombers recommenced their deadly work on artillery emplacements and lines that were held by courage, not strength. A khaki flood was pouring on Singapore along a two-mile front between Sungei Mandai and Sungei Kranji. The sprawling suburbs of Singapore heard the whine of machine...
At el-Aghéila&151;the high-water mark of the previous British advance across the desert&151;Erwin Rommel was in a perfect tactical spot. He held a shore position flanked on one side by the sea, on the other by nearly impassable salt marshes. When he sallied...
On Whidby Island in Puget Sound, the farmers' beach patrol was on watch, night after night, regardless of Senatorial questions and military reverses, with "an eye to the sky and an ear to the ground." The volunteer harbor patrol at Seattle, run by the man who was once the...