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...Children. Trieste harbor is lovely and undamaged. The Kiwis (New Zealanders) park their tanks and trucks on the waterside, and enjoy the surf with Italian girls. In the town itself the streets are patrolled night & day by armed squads of Yugoslavs carrying machine guns and tripods, knives, pistols and clusters of grenades. Most of them are very young; some are only ten or twelve years old. Their tattered uniforms include British battle dress, captured German and Italian hand-me-downs. When not patrolling, most of them ramble around Trieste's downtown districts with their dirty-haired Yugoslav girls...
Among the U.S. crews were many veterans of D-day in Normandy, where the big problem had been surf and tides. Not since then had an operation in the European Theater required so much careful preparation. Vice Admiral Alan G. Kirk's landborne outfits were ready at H-hour. On the Twenty-first Army Group's north front, soon after the first troops had crossed in assault boats, the Navy's ramp-bowed craft came rolling up to the Rhine on mammoth trucks and were quickly launched. Soon a stream of LCVPs and LCMs were ferrying...
...weather, which has been rough beyond anything encountered along the Central Pacific way. Only heroic work by LST and LSM men and shore parties has kept supplies moving through the fairly steady mortar fire on the beaches. One-third of our small boats have been knocked out by high surf or by enemy fire...
...beach extending south from San Fabian. Assault troops streamed ashore in full daylight, direct from LCIs, with no opposition save enemy mortar fire. Wilkinson's group, following Barbey's into the gulf and staking out the southernmost beach west to Lingayen, met no enemy fire, but heavy surf breaking far out complicated the task of landing heavy equipment...
Blood in Athens. It was a sun-drenched Sunday. But British Tommies and grey-clad Greek police rimmed Athens' Constitution Square. Premier George Papandreou had forbidden a demonstration by the Communist-controlled EAM. Presently the sound of thousands of people marching and chanting swelled and ebbed like surf. The marchers broke a police cordon. They carried flags of Russia, Greece, Britain, the U.S. Men, women & children surged toward Government Palace. Police Chief Paunias Ebert ordered: "Fire...