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...admitted, units of the 92nd have too often "melted away" before the enemy. Certain units have been thrown into "more or less panicky retreats, particularly at night when the attitude of some individual soldiers seemed to be, 'I'm up here all alone; why in hell should I stay up here...
Last week the bridge caught particular hell. It was then less important than the ponton bridges the Americans had slung together downriver. The 1,200-foot bridge no longer carried heavy traffic and was frequently blocked off for repairs. But the Germans were determined to avenge the Ludendorff's betrayal of their cause. In six days they sent 104 dive bombers, singly and in threes, to blast at the bridge. It trembled to a thunderous barrage of ack-ack all around...
...taking the German village of Veen, the Zombies got their chance. They had to advance over flat farmland, then subdue the German defenders house by house, barn by barn, pigsty by pigsty. It took three days, and one reporter called the battle "a double-header dose of hell." Even after the village was taken, it had to be combed for mines, for it was nastily booby-trapped. One Canadian was blown up when he pulled a sheet off a farmhouse bed to spread over a dead comrade. Said one officer: "We scarcely dared milk a cow standing in a barn...
...White Whale in their ultimate engagement, it lacks the relative coherence and clarity of most of its predecessors. It demonstrates, in fact, more clearly than any previous film, that war in its crucial essence is neither dramatic nor even particularly human, but paroxysmic: that it is simply hell on earth...
...again, however, in '40 and '44). Fitz, refusing to draw pro-Landon cartoons, more or less expected to be fived. But Pulitzer only remarked to him: "Sorry you couldn't go along with us." Fitz, a P-D man for 31 years, summed up last week: "Hell, I wouldn't last a week with Hearst. This paper is run as near like a democracy should be run as anything I know...