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Have strength and courage, ye men of Baker. Lift your weary heads anew. For, come a few short weeks lapse of time, and you shall no longer lose two hours precious slumber standing guard. Hell no. You'll lose seven and a half...
...wondered. Back in Cambridge? Maybe. Haven't thought much about it, Vag said under his breath. Family always wanted me to have that degree. And I only need three more courses. But it's going to be different afterwards. And I'll be different. Why the hell come back anyway. Right now I just want to get out of this ghost town. Hope the draft board gets me before exams. . . . And if I came back it would only be an escape. And I'd be bored. And a lot of us won't be back at all. To hell with...
...Montgomery had been thrown back at the northern end of the Mareth Line. In a 15-mile-wide gap between the Matmata Mountains and the seashore, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had stopped him cold and he had backed up, leaving the plain strewn with British dead around the hell of the Wadi Zigzau (see p. 17). It appeared that Montgomery had been stalled. It only appeared...
...facts which might comfort the enemy, few generals find it easy to state the bitter, unqualified truth in communiqué or other public utterance. One of the frankest admissions of modern times was Lieut. General ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell's after retreating from Burma: "I claim we got a hell of a beating." Classic example of the frank general is the Greek Pyrrhus. Upon receiving congratulations on his costly victory over the Romans at Asculum (279 B.C.), he replied: "Another such victory and we are undone...
...pilots soon discovered that Ken Walker was no long-nosed owl. He went on three bombing missions the first day, in three different types of bombers-and came back disgusted: "Hell, we didn't hit anything." Thereafter, he went on many another raid, figuring out ways to improve the score. When the bombardier dropped his bombs Ken Walker was up front watching him. And when the Zeros swarmed in, the general went back with the side gunners. Sometimes he manned a gun himself...