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...White Russian Army, aimed at Berlin. Zhukov's technique was based on three waves of attack: 1) the tanks and enough men and gasoline trucks to keep them going; 2) mobile infantry, to hold the sides of the wedge against counterattack; 3) massed infantry to do the bloody, unsung job of mopping up the enemy...
...runways, Clark was the greatest air base in the Southwest Pacific. The Japanese had fortified 30 caves for its defense, yet they abandoned these, and confined their resistance to artillery fire from other caves in nearby hills. There were only sharp local actions, in which men died, honored but unsung. There had been as yet no major Jap stand on the road to Manila. That goal was almost within range of MacArthur's field glasses...
Thus, unwept, unhonored and unsung, died Vichy France...
...buildings were crammed with motor parts, tires, thousands of tons of food. The wood from opened crates, carefully salvaged for fuel and for building barracks furniture, covered a ten-acre field. Everywhere swarmed the unsung workers of the Army's rear-area establishment: quartermasters, engineers, ordnancemen, specialists of a hundred sorts...
...specific plans, which had to be shared with President Roosevelt, with Prime Minister Churchill, with General Marshall and the Anglo-U.S. staffs in Washington. But the ultimate responsibility was Eisenhower's. And to accomplish his job Eisenhower must lean heavily on his British-American headquarters staff, the unsung heroes who attend to the complex, dull details that are an inevitable and vital part of fighting...