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...night Athens was awesome. The darkness which engulfed the city was periodically pierced by flares parachuted by the R.A.F. to reveal ELAS troop movements. The floating flares also revealed the Parthenon in a new, glowing beauty. The Acropolis was again a fortress. Under cover of night British paratroopers descended on the historic (and once more strategic) eminence, found it unoccupied. All round them was ELAS-land, but the skytroopers were confident they could hold the precipitous heights against any assault. The only troops which had ever taken the Acropolis by storm were the Persians...
Meanwhile, the Japs' convoy of four troop transports, two freighters, four destroyers and three destroyer escorts was lurking in San Isidro Bay, 30 miles short of its destination at Ormoc. U.S. Army and Navy planes spent all day attacking them. By 5:30 p.m. every one had been sunk. The water was covered with oil, dotted with the bobbing heads of enemy soldiers...
...land his reinforcements until he had paid heavily for the privilege. In spite of weather, Jap smokescreens and Jap fighter protection, land-based fighters and B-25s from Lieut. General George Kenney's air forces struck heavily. One day they sank seven destroyers and three troop transports out of a total of 19 vessels-but not until the men and supplies had been unloaded...
...sides. But after four hours, the proud, tradition-conscious British "Jollies" beat the Germans down, swarmed up the dikes, and put the German guns out of action with grenades and flamethrowers. Four days later the Admiralty disclosed that of 25 gunships all but five had been lost. Many ordinary troop-landing craft had also been destroyed and casualties were "severe." Westkapelle would go down in history with Dieppe and Tarawa...
...start of the post-armistice campaign, most Finns had too long been friends of the Germans to pursue the battle with gusto. But heavy-footed Germans did their undiplomatic best to change Finnish minds. Outmoded Stukas brutally dive-bombed two Finnish troop trains. Finnish towns were fired with senseless Teutonic fury. The Finnish soldier began to take a more personal interest...