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...account of us, General Mac." He sat at a debris-littered desk, printed his reply with formal military courtesy: "To the German Commander-NUTS!-the American Commander." So there would be no misinterpretation, an officer translated for the blindfolded German envoy: "It means the same as 'Go to Hell...
...problem (in one group of 46 captured German casualties, 14 had trench foot) but the Russians have-thanks to long experience and rigid discipline. All Russian soldiers are paired off, required to massage each other's feet regularly; and the man whose massage buddy gets trench foot catches hell...
Portly, senatorial George Lyon, veteran newspaper editor and OWI man, supported them. Lyon rumbled: "SHAEF's policy on this matter is stupid. . . . Everybody across hell and 40 acres knows what's going on. The American people are entitled to know...
That Was No Lady. In Los Angeles, newspapermen and photographers sped to the Army's Birmingham General Hospital, demanded "Where are the gals?"; received the puzzled reply "What gals?"; chorused "Didn't you say you were getting in the first lady casualties?" "Hell, no," said the medicos, "we said the first arrival of Leyte casualties...
...Wrote. In the pockets of some of the dead paratroopers were phrase lists in English. The most succinct: "Go to hell, beast." More dramatic was a formal statement to be made on landing, with the name of a U.S. airfield to fill the blank: "I am chief commander on Japanese desant [descent] paratroop army. All the airdrome of [blank] has been taken tonight by the Japanese Army. It is resistless, so you must surrender. Answer yes or no. All the Japanese Army has done great attack...