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...almost the fifth anniversary of the beginning of World War II. Then, they had handed him a disaster. With Norway overrun by the Nazis, he had said: "'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat...
These were the first U.S. nationals to be liberated from the Japanese. Behind the Chamorros lay two years and eight months of slavery under the Japs; ahead lay months more of toil to rebuild their homes and farms destroyed by American might. But ahead, too, lay freedom and friendship-freedom to speak English or any other language, to go to church and confession, to send children to school...
...passed since the indomitable little Man with the Cigar had promised an indomitable Britain nothing but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Visiting the Normandy beachhead this week Winston Churchill, an aging bulldog, but still a bulldog, spoke with proud, paternal informality to a group of R.A.F. men. Net of his remarks: Germany is through-but Britain...
...said Souza, "you've made it." Thus the Anzio beachhead passed into history, after four months of toil, tribulation and terror. The beachhead front and the Cassino front at last were one, and this was high drama for home-front folks leaping at headlines. The Allied offensive in Italy formed the southern prong of the promised triple attack on Hitler's heartland. With things going so well in the south, D-day in the west and the pounce of the Russian giant could not be far behind...
...gliders, bearing U.S. engineer troops, jeeps, mules, shovels, road graders. The landings were not without accident: the commanding engineer officer was killed, other gliders crashed, some passengers came to earth surrounded by Japs and had to fight their way to the main body. But within 24 hours, heroic toil had finished the first landing strip. Then came the transport planes. It was eight days before the surprised Japs even sent a plane to see what was happening. Royal Air Force Spitfires quickly chased it away...