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First important step in this drive was the capture of Barrafranca, a town of stone houses at the end of a narrow valley, guarded on either side by three rugged hills and many smaller ones. The veteran 1st Division's 26th Infantry Regiment was assigned to take these hills...
To the Islands. On the same night a little fleet of landing boats moved out from Papua, toward the Trobriand and Woodlark Islands. Lieut. Commander John D. Bulkeley, the famed "expendable" who brought General MacArthur out of Corregidor, commanded an escorting section of PT boats. Overhead low-flying P-38s...
The ranking Axis commanders in the Tunisia debacle were quartered in "camps" - actually country homes with spacious but well-guarded grounds. The tactful British planted them several miles apart; Messe and Arnim had differed sharply on strategy and were not speaking during the final days. Both are entitled to the...
* The staff of Henry Ford Hospital formally announced that "death was due to a condition which developed from a former stomach malady for which an operation was performed 16 months ago. Undulant fever was also present." The New York Daily News picked up the rumor that death was due to...
Thrice weekly Nazi troops avoid the dangers of coastal sea transport by traveling overland through Sweden from Storlien farther north to Riksgränsen. But most galling of all are the two "Reichswehr special" trains, sealed and guarded by Swedish soldiers, packed each day with 1,000 German troops being...