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...screen for 14 hours. Another unit switched to high explosive when attacked by Italian tanks, disabled three before the others retreated. Last month, the 4.2 showed its usefulness at the crossing of the Volturno. Firing smoke shells, one unit screened infantrymen as they slid down the bank, waded and swam to the German side of the river. Another outfit smoked up the area where Engineers were building a bridge under fire, kept them well screened until the job was done...
...zero hour. Down to the bank hurried British and American infantry. They waded, swam, paddled and chugged across. Those who got over and clawed up the steep north bank, and those who fell by the way, had taken their hardest punishment since Salerno. They had given punishment, too, and behind them the tough engineers could now thrust bridges for jeeps, tanks and big guns...
...loafed among the villas. On its outskirts were the ancient suburbs of Herculaneum and Pompeii, which had been mummified 1,860 years ago by Vesuvius' erupting ash. It was a sight, a pile of palaces, churches, an opera house, university, museum, an aquarium where famous pale octopuses swam in tanks. It was slovenly and filthy and loud. Hoarse-voiced women dumped their garbage from windows, chased their dirty children through the narrow streets. It was one of the great cities of the world. Its citizens had a proverb: "Vedi Napoli e poi Muori." ("See Naples and die.") But last...
...week's end MacArthur's troops seized the first prize of the coordinated campaign. Australian troops swam a jungle river to make a surprise assault and capture strategic Salamaua airfield. North of Lae, against the other jaw of the closing Allied trap, the enemy counterattacked weakly. Mr. Okuda's people appeared to be growing weary of the war in New Guinea...
Stripping off his uniform, a young officer swam to the boat and hauled himself over the gunwale, dropping to cover as Jap shells whistled around him. The dead sailor was stretched out on deck, the secret device still clutched in his hand. The officer pried it loose, swam with it to deep water and let it sink out of sight...