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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Percy Knauth is as American as baseball-he was born within sight of the towers of Manhattan-but this will be something like a homecoming for him. He knows almost every country in Europe firsthand (Finland, the Low Countries and Russia are just about the only places he has never been). He went to school on the Continent-first in Switzerland, then in Germany; and he lived and worked in Germany as a New York Times correspondent for years-all through the shame of Munich and the ravaging of Poland, the fall of France and the blitz of Britain...
...soon as he could, he got back inside the Fortress: in Bulgaria he watched a Russian division moving up to battle, a sight rarely witnessed by U.S. newsmen. In Rumania he lunched with young King Mihai and Queen Helen, got the King's own story of how he had trapped Antonescu. En route back to Turkey he joined the British troops clearing the Nazis out of their Aegean outposts...
Warrior Churchill could sight even greener fields not far beyond. He messaged: "British soldiers, it will long be told how, with our Canadian brothers and valiant United States allies, this superb task was accomplished. Once the river line is pierced and the crust of German resistance is broken, the decisive victory in Europe will be near. May God prosper our arms in this noble adventure after our long struggle for King and country, for dear life, and for the freedom of mankind...
Larks sang in the spring sky and the shaky-legged lambs frisked in the German fields. In some of the smashed beer houses were broken pianos, drums, brass horns. But the most fascinating thing in sight was the rolling ribbon of the Autobahn -the four-lane superhighway connecting Frankfurt am Main and the Ruhr...
...marines had lost sight of the target in the fog of battle, the San Francisco Chronicle had not. It roundly thumped Hearst for running down the marines in order to build up General MacArthur-who needed no build-up at anyone's expense. Observed the Chronicle: "Sinister fantasy ... to hint that the marines die fast and move slowly . . . because marine and naval leadership ... is incompetent...