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...extreme example was the deed of petite, Manila-bred Filipino Nurse Rebecca Salvación, who had to take cover in a shallow trench when her station was bombed. Other nurses were evacuated in ambulances. Somehow Nurse Salvación was left behind. So, too, was a U.S. Marine, wounded in the throat by a bomb fragment and calling for help from a nearby trench. Rebecca Salvación crawled from her trench, made it to a building, summoned an Army doctor, Captain Benjamin Kysor of Oswego, N.Y., to help...
...Facts. Ponderous shellproof bunkers, with antiaircraft, anti-tank and machine guns, have been built near Berlin's Zoo station, in the Friedrichshain workers' district, in the Lichtenberg factory area. A yawning anti-tank trench has been dug and tank barriers set up along the rear of Berlin's chief Government buildings...
Physically he is as tough as he is un handsome. From the top of his shaved head to the bottom of his splay-toed feet he is hard. His buttocks are big with marching. His arms are strong, and he can dig himself into a shallow trench quickly and neatly. His eyes are generally good, and there is no physical reason why his aim should not be clean...
Germany's Transocean News Service issued a scholarly dissertation on trench warfare: "The front line in trench war fare is generally shortened to economize strong forces, which can then be held in reserve, simultaneously enjoying certain rest. ... In view of the huge area that Russia presents, it is quite immaterial whether the German forces establish their positions 50 or 60 kilometers east or west." On to Berlin! From Moscow via Stock holm came news that Joseph Stalin had called together his highest war chiefs and told them to press their advantage, to roll the Germans on & on, to defeat...
...Russians counterattacked. By the end of last week, Bock's northern army was driven back, his southern army was withdrawing rapidly under ferocious hammering. According to the Russians, 51 divisions had been swept into retreat, leaving behind 1,434 tanks, 5,416 trucks, 575 field guns, 339 trench mortars, 869 machine guns. On the defensive arc of the capital, 400 villages and towns had been recaptured in a week. Since Nov. 16, said the Russians, 85,000 Germans had been killed...