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...piper skirled a march for the Highlanders in the British front line. Hell broke over El Alamein: from hundreds of hidden positions artillery laid down the heaviest barrage yet seen in the desert. After six hours infantrymen moved toward the Germans' shattered positions. R.A.F. bombers and fighters attacked with the ground forces. The advance units found their way through their own minefields, marched gingerly into the German fields. Soon lights began to twinkle close to the ground: they were guttering flames in gasoline tins, marking alleys through the German fields for the main body of troops and tanks...
...Then hell fell on the beachhead. In mid-morning a fence of enemy cruisers and destroyers shelled it from the north. Douglas dive-bombers went up and damaged a heavy cruiser. Then 16 enemy dive-bombers, which must have been carrier-based, attacked Henderson Field. Five were shot down. Nine more Jap divers swooped in. This time they did damage...
...Democrats had hoped for a battlefield victory in October; this looked like something else. Said one Democratic bigwig: "If we lose the Solomons, it is going to be terrible. The loss of the Solomons, if we do finally lose them, is going to set this country afire. Hell's fire, the people will...
...British fired the shipyards, coal, iron, lumber and cement center of Kiel. Pathfinder planes overcame poor visibility by dropping hundreds of flares. The bombers followed with 4,000 tons of explosive-more hell than Kiel had caught in any of the previous 69 raids. Ten planes failed to return...
...Sambula vanaka" is the native greeting, meaning "God bless you," and the shortened "bula" means "hello." U.S. soldiers and grinning natives shout "bula" at each other whenever they meet. One day a corporal said "bula" to a black boy. Reply: "Bula, hell, I came over on the boat with...