Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another Village. Through shell-scarred olive and fig groves on a terraced hillside, the Americans moved into San Vittore, a crescent-shaped village converted into a German fortress. For two days a bitter, bits-&-pieces battle tossed and tumbled from house to house, basement to basement. Every one of San Vittore's 200-odd buildings was wrecked. The Germans fired machine guns, machine pistols, rifles and rifle grenades from every window and balcony. The Americans answered with bazookas, grenades, quick-firing 37-mm. antitank guns. So close and confused was the melee that officers talking over field telephones...
...feel so mucha better now," said Tony. "We kill to savea the pig but we kill for this, too." His hand pointed to streets where houses lay tumbled by mines and dynamite, where wooden window shutters rattled against shaky walls. A bitter wind, climbing wildly up the slopes to the rock on which the village stood, set a church bell tolling fitfully. Shawled women poked in the rubble for their pots & pans...
...General Vatutin's men fell Berdichev, a manufacturing center and traffic junction, once the headquarters of Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein's South Russia Command. A bitter, five-day attack expelled the Germans from Berdichev, battered them back toward the next and last railway from the Ukraine into Poland. To General Ivan Konev's Second Ukrainian Army fell Kirovograd, a station on a trunk railway leading westward from the far end of the Dnieper Bend...
...A.A.F. Arnold pays tribute, saves his best for the men who fly and fight the planes. "Charts, graphs, strategy would mean nothing without the devotion, anger and bitter pride of our men. ... It is they who are fighting this...
Omens of the End. Swedish travelers, from Berlin, dazed and awestruck, described a city of cavedwellers, told of destruction on the Hamburg scale, of extreme suffering from the bitter cold and the total disruption of fuel and food distribution. Fresh bombs were falling into old fires still burning; stiff winds spread the flames...