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...Hyde Park. That night, aboard a special train again, the President's body traveled his old route, along the Pennsylvania Railroad's main line through Philadelphia, and into Manhattan; then across Hell Gate and up the New York Central's Hudson division to Hyde Park...
...First Army cut loose with a 25-mile push along the Thuringian corridor, south of the Harz Mountains. Next day the Ninth's 2nd Armored ("Hell on Wheels") Division amazingly spurted 50 miles to the Elbe River. Next day the Third's 6th Armored moved up 46 miles to the vicinity of Jena. Next day the same Army's famed 4th Armored sped 32 miles across the railroads and highway linking Berlin and Munich. Thereafter enemy traffic had to take the roundabout route through Dresden and Prague...
Time for a Breather? At Magdeburg, where it had bridged the Elbe, the "Hell on Wheels" Division was forced to backtrack for the first time in 30 months of fighting Germans. Three enemy divisions came charging out from Berlin and flailed at the bridgehead troops with massed artillery. The Yanks yielded the bridgehead with heavy casualties, some swimming back across the 450-ft. river. Fifteen miles to the southeast, however, at Barby, other Ninth Army units held a bridgehead five miles deep...
...will take me a solid year to catch up with my hunting and fishing. And I'll be so far away from things I won't be able to exercise a retired general's prerogative of cussing and swearing that the new army has gone to hell since...
...instructor picked up the French word for take-off-decoler, now tells his students, "O.K., let's decolate." One student wrote on a plane's maintenance report: "Tail wheel crazy." Another promised to reprove a third trainee for carelessness: "I'll give to him the hell...