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This June and July will be the crucial months for the Russiaus, and thus for all the nations that depend on Russian success. If Russian resistance is firm Hitler may have to decide whether to retreat or immobilize the front, he said, and it was precisely to prevent such trench warfare that the Rusisaus waged offensive warfare last winter when they attacked all along the extended front, and constantly harried the German troops...
When the second Jap wave came over, bomb fragments wounded a pilot and two mechanics in a trench flanking the runway. An A.V.G. doctor lugged the pilot to a jeep and drove it across the field to a hospital, with Jap bullets chasing him in the dust like puffs from his own exhaust pipe. One of the mechanics died. In an ambulance plane the pilot and the other mechanic were carried over the mountains to Calcutta...
True, the Burma Road was choked. But it was choked by hundreds of trucks moving supplies northward into China and returning with crack, seasoned Chinese troops, drawn from Chiang Kai-shek's elite divisions and equipped with rifles, bayonets, hand grenades, light & heavy machine guns, trench mortars and automatic pistols. Many of them were already in action on the Salween front. New arrivals strung out protectively along the Burma Road north of Lashio or skirmished with the Jap along the Thai border...
...many war-weary months the people of Leningrad have known solemn, youthful Dmitri Shostakovich as a fire fighter, a trench digger, an embattled citizen like themselves. But the rest of the world has continued to think of him as the only living composer, aside from Finland's Jean Sibelius, who can make musical history by writing a new symphony. Last week musical history was again on the make. In Kuibyshev, secondary Soviet capital, the orchestra of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater began rehearsals on Shostakovich's long-heralded Symphony No. 7. Composer Shostakovich has dedicated his symphony...
...cootie was a joke to many people who had never been bitten by one. Even itching soldiers stoically made a joke out of it. On the Western Front, thanks to frequent delousing and other precautions, the cootie seldom brought anything worse than a comparatively mild infliction called trench fever. But to millions of Germans today as to other millions in many of history's wars, the cootie means horror and death in the form of typhus...