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...Allies had a formidable waiting army - the airborne legions of Lieut. Gen eral Lewis H. Brereton - for landings be hind any stubborn German defense line...
...stubborn," grinned the lieutenant. He turned to the MP escort in the jeep behind him. Said he: "If this guy makes a break, just plug him." The jeeps whisked off to the rear. Major General Richter stared straight ahead...
...Alamein, Mareth, Enfidaville and Italy's Gustaf Line, the Germans were entrenched again. Now it was the Gothic Line, a complex of concrete pillboxes behind a maze of mine fields and barbed wire entanglements north of Italy's Arno River. Manning the positions were twelve divisions of stubborn Huns commanded by able Field Marshal Albert Kesselring. Their orders: to hold until the last day of summer...
Last week the Americans broke down one stubborn fortress, secured a minor port. Stiff-backed Colonel Andreas von Auloch, the "madman of Saint-Malo," finally surrendered. Begrimed (but with boots shining), proud of their stand (but reeling after a farewell bout with the bottle), the Germans gave up after eleven days of pounding. Before they marched out of their tunneled redoubt the Germans freed seven U.S. prisoners. The Americans had been treated well, had scarcely noticed the air bombardments in the four-story-deep granite fortress...
...Japs had taken stubborn Hengyang, key point on the Hankow-Canton railroad. Now, instead of continuing directly south toward Canton, they flung 120,000 troops southwest along the spur line toward Kweilin. An underprivileged Chinese Army, ill-nourished, ill-armed, ill-clad, stood before them, the Fourteenth's flyers hammered them desperately from above...