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...understood and cared what they-not as regiments or armies but as individual men-were like and were trying to do. Their affection grew as, time & again, they saw Pyle force himself to share their dangers and keep on sharing them, despite the increasing fears that sometimes made him scream in his sleep, despite the fact that he could go home any time he wanted...
There the German 170-mm. rifle shoots right across to the beach. (Troops on the beachhead call it the "Anzio Express" because they can hear the scream of its shells passing, hear the report of the gun from the enemy lines, hear the explosion on the shore behind them.) Sometimes the troops see the German guns firing, call on their 105s for counterbattery fire, only to see the U.S. bursts fall far short at maxi mum range. Even 155s sneaked to for ward positions at night have not succeeded in reaching the Germans...
...need for a postwar depression." Far from cringing at the unknown terrors of the future, the optimistic Ancients buoyantly proclaimed that the conversion job, if competently managed, "should be an adventure in prosperity." Cried Author Baruch to Scripps-Howard's Henry J. Taylor: "If the program carries the scream of the American eagle, it is because I feel that the old bird in its own right deserves first attention in the world aviary...
When a mule cart blocked his armored car outside Adano, General Marvin ordered the cart tipped off the road. When the terrified mule began to scream, the General ordered it shot. When his staff officers objected, thinking of the effect on the townspeople of Adano, the General damned them up & down. Then the General issued an order forbidding any carts to enter Adano. That stopped all food to the starving town. When General Marvin and Major Joppolo met, each felt an instantaneous, unrelenting mutual dislike that grew in a few moments to intense hatred. When the General discovered that Joppolo...
There was a quick deafening scream, then a shell exploded a few feet away from the farmhouse. Dirt splattered through the stable windows on to the doughboys lying in the straw and manure inside. Another shell tore open the black soil near by. Four bundles of feathers fluttered from the hen house down to the ground. "If all they get is chickens, we've got a good day ahead," 'said Toffey. Three more explosions within 25 yards shook the house and stable. A wide-eyed replacement raised his head from the floor and gasped: "Them's bombs...