Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...April sunshine in the narrow gravel yard around their barracks. Among themselves they discussed all the possible fates the brutal Germans might be planning for them, talked of escape and what to do, but none of them did anything. Years of imprisonment had taken too heavy a toll of their capacity for action...
Grimly, while their toll of dead and wounded mounted, they dug in and clung to the ridgeside. The wounded were moved into a little ravine for protection, but Japanese shells reached in to kill them on their litters. Their officers ordered a retreat. Some of the battalion got through the fire to safety...
...Netherlands from their supplies. England marked its eleventh straight day free of V-bombs, heard cheering tidings from the Ministry of Home Security : the V-2 campaign as Britons had known it was definitely ended; the Germans had been driven out of effective range. There were official toll figures: 8,436 persons killed, 25,101 injured by V-bombs since the attacks began on June 15. But Britons kept their fingers crossed; the enemy might still use aircraft to bring V-1 buzz-bombs again into range of England...
Britons would long remember the Germans by their V-bombs. Many remembered the last published casualty totals: in February, 483 British civilians killed, 1,152 injured (last August's toll of 1,103 killed was still the V-bomb high mark...
...same week that the Rhine was crossed, the U.S. people learned the full toll of what their might of arms had wrought in Cologne. No one, except the overly sentimental, shed tears. But for the first time the certain chaos of postwar Germany was made graphic. Everyone knew now that, no matter when the war in Europe ends, its end would not bring a cessation of grave problems. And there was still the stern prospect of the Pacific...