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Four men and a dog stood at attention in the bright sun that splashed the church courtyard in the Italian town of Pietra-vairano. Ack-ack crackled in the distance but the group remained motionless. The Division General was reading...
...Army softball teams were playing on a field adjacent to the ack-ack site where Mary is stationed. Our game was suddenly broken up by some 40 highly indignant British sailors. Their nearby soccer game had been broken up by the police for lack of permit to use the field. . . . Tension was critical between all of us. ... In the interests of international harmony we decided to withdraw...
Through the bomb-bursts and ack-ack that once made Malta about the hottest spot this side of hell appeared an old familiar face last week. Its somewhat-forgotten owner was Major General John Hay Beith, better known to U.S. readers by his pen name: Ian Hay. Author Hay's The First Hundred Thousand was the biggest best-seller among World War I war books until Private Peat and Arthur Guy Empey's Over the Top went over...
...barracks, oil tanks, coastal guns, ack-ack batteries, power plants, a water-distilling plant, ammunition dumps were destroyed. Yet toward the end of the second day Jap small-caliber guns put up ack-ack fire. Some of the younger U.S. pilots were puzzled. But old hands and the high command knew that only direct hits by aerial bombs could wipe out the burrowed Japs. A naval officer estimated that 85% to 90% of the enemy garrison were still alive. Unless the Jap evacuated, marines or infantry would still have to fight for Wake...
...British circuit was tougher, with Hope & Company (Comic Jack Pepper substituting for Jerry Colonna) "resting" from camp shows by bobbing up in hospitals, dropping in on ack-ack crews, sloshing across rainswept heaths to entertain soldiers on maneuvers. Hope's gags got around so fast he had to keep changing them, and he and Scriptwriter Hal Block ground out new ones in bumpy transit, or in hotel rooms long past midnight...