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...German town of Wolfsburg, about 100 miles west of Berlin, had been built by Hitler to turn out "people's cars" for the 1,000-year Third Reich. In World War II it was 60% destroyed by Allied bombs. Rain slashed through the holes in its roof after V-E day while a motley crew of 8,000 refugees and former soldiers grubbed about in the ruins. Half were cleaning up rubble; the others were virtually hand-tooling a few vehicles for the British occupation army. Falling bricks were a constant menace; live wires lay tangled in the mess...
Later that year, Twining swung through Washington expecting rest leave, instead got command of the new Fifteenth Air Force in Italy, engineered the heavy bomb raids on the Axis' Balkan underbelly, notably on Rumania's Ploesti oil refineries. After V-E day, briefly succeeded Curtis Le-May as commander of the Twentieth Air Force in the Pacific, four months later took over as boss of the Air Materiel Command, Wright Field. In 1947, Twining got command of the Alaskan theater, in 1950 became General Van-denberg's Vice Chief of Staff, and in June 1953, Chief...
When the Western Allies stumbled upon him right after V-E Day, Konrad Adenauer was just an old man in a high, starched collar, stern and vigorous and proud, already well into the twilight of his life. In his three-score-and-ten, his homeland had soared and sunk through two great historical phases and entered a third. Two of these phases Konrad Adenauer had lived out in a routine of efficient ordinariness and relative obscurity. He was born (Jan. 5, 1876) in the age of Bismarck; he was already 42 when the Kaiser fell. Through the sad days...
...V-E day. Dean asked his aide for a list of the division's total casualties. He jotted them down on the back of his immunization card: killed 968, wounded 4,390, missing 374, captured 42. Dean looked up. "Only 42 captured for the whole war?" The officer nodded. "That's right...
...time Churchill saw Franklin Roosevelt was on board the U.S. cruiser Quincy, in the harbor of Alexandria, after the Yalta Conference. The President seemed "placid and frail," to have only a "slender contact with life." The first time Churchill met Harry Truman was at Potsdam, ten weeks after the V-E day which Roosevelt did not live to see. Truman impressed the British Prime Minister with his "gay, precise, sparkling manner and obvious power of decision...