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Sirs: Conspicuous only by its absence on this front is the irritating lack of news. News not only of the Allied liberation of the French peoples, but of the world. (Yes, it's true, we here in France don't even know what in the hell is going on at our very doorstep.) Our G.I. Stars & Stripes is reaching us quite steadily, but unfortunately it has yet to find a writer who can report as successfully as yours. Typical of that is the remark of a brother G.I. at our first mail-call on French soil. We were...
...Germans were learning, as their fellow sufferers had learned on the Eastern Front, that retreat for an army without air cover is an inferno, that no devils in hell could be worse than the pursuer's ground-hugging planes, stabbing and jabbing with cannon, rockets, frag mentation bombs and machine guns...
...bombardier took control of the plane for the bombing run. It lasted 45 seconds. The pilot, Major William C. Kingsbury, took over again with the standard admonition "Let's get the hell out of here," as one of the gunners reported some of the bombs hitting where they should...
...Words. He cried: "July 20 [the day of the attempt on Hitler] represents the opposite of an indication of deteriorating morale. . . . We must pass through this hell of resistance, difficulties and dangers before we can come out into the open again at the end of the war and breathe the fresh air. There can be no doubt that we shall succeed. We must succeed, or else all of us are lost...
Tall, boyish Photographer Bede Irvin of Des Moines went overseas for the Associated Press with hell-for-leather enthusiasm. When D-day came, he was delighted. Last week he watched U.S. infantrymen moving through barrage smoke west of Saint-Lô. He forgot caution, barely noticed a wave of Marauders coming in low behind him as someone yelled: "Watch out, their bombs are falling short." In the moment-too-long he waited to grab his camera before jumping for a ditch, a bomb fragment got him. He was the 18th U.S. newsman to be killed in World...