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Gaudiest feather in his cap was his command of the Stalingrad relief campaign. Rokossovsky's forces-tanks, infantry, artillery, aircraft and cavalry-crossed the Don to form a ring around Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus' 22 divisions, anticipated the point of a German counterattack, and in savage and...
Snapped Tom Dewey: "I would advocate the immediate execution of your pigs, which are competing with my cows for corn." He added, with a smile: "But I would advocate eating them, not plowing them under."
The Japanese execution of the American flyers [TIME, May 3] has recalled to my mind a fact that I've been pondering, on and off, ever since the war started-the fact that one may, with propriety, use any means of killing an enemy airman as long as he...
All that the lovely Floria Tosca asked was a safe-conduct pass for herself and her lover to leave the country. Her wiles and her entreaties had failed. At last she had promised her body. Baron Scarpia, Chief of Police in Rome, smiled. He gave an order that the girl...
There was no hint as to Mihailovich's reaction to the British suggestions. But there was plenty of evidence that Yugoslav patriots were fighting the invader with fresh fury. In Montenegro and Bosnia they stopped a new German offensive. Railroad bridges on the Belgrade-Sofia and Belgrade-Salonika lines...