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...mile sector east of Aachen, battlewise First Army troops found they could lunge instead of slog. They lunged upon Eschweiler, nearly midway between Aachen and Düren and astride the six-lane Adolf Hitler Highway to Cologne, only 28 miles away. There the battle turned fluid. More Germans rushed to that gap in their dike, launched weak, futile counterattacks...
Sometimes the infantryman has trucks to transport him and vehicles for his heavier weapons. But often he still must slog along, up hill & down, through mud and through dust, toting all this new arsenal of weapons to the point of action, and then fight with them. He has to be lavish in his expenditure of physical effort under the worst of physical conditions. He also has to have guts to fight in situations where there is no possible safety for any man. And to fight effectively he has to be master of his weapon, and in the infantry today there...
Against a swarming background, Playwright Hart tells the story of six typical young flyers. First half of Winged Victory spans the 15-month training period, from a rowdy first glimpse of camp to a jubilant parade-ground graduation. Betweenwhiles, the boys slog away, go on solo flights, snatch moments with their girls and wives. One of the six washes out, another is killed night-flying...
...letters to soldiers every week in return for lapel pins. Last week the War Department was looking for a way to crack down on such schemes, to make sure soldiers got the letters they wanted to get instead of just letters. Meantime, the perspiring Army Postal Service continued to slog through higher & higher mountains of mail. Only one thing was constant: 10% of all overseas letters were misdirected...
...Lincoln Battalion after its retreat from Teruel. Of 500 men who had started the battle there were about 100 filthy, unarmed survivors, silent or snarling, lying dead-beat on a hillside. In a week, with new replacements and an issue of old Russian Imperial Army rifles, they had to slog back into the line, still dopey with fatigue. "You fired till the rifle got too hot to handle; then you opened the bolt and blew down the barrel and let it cool, resting your face on your extended arm, waiting. You got so you were afraid to lift your head...