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...masters, stored in inland safety since Pearl Harbor, began returning to Manhattan museum walls. Bellicose Fiorello LaGuardia, who heretofore had enjoyed an air raid alert as much as a fire, lamely justified the relaxation: "I don't say [Hitler's] not coming over, but I'm sure he cannot come with enough to aim at the pictures and hit the mark...
This kind of fighting wrenched the jungle from the Jap, slowly enlarged the Empress Augusta Bay beachhead. Now, after six weeks of fighting, it runs roughly 10,000 yards along the shore, 8,000 yards inland. Last week came the announcement that U.S. engineers had completed a runway within the beachhead. The Allied command could now count on better fighter cover for air and sea attacks on Rabaul, the Jap Southwest Pacific strongpoint...
...LVTs (Landing Vehicles, Tracked) proved themselves in the reef-guarded Gilberts. Other landing craft were halted by the coral rings around the islands. The Alligators (originally developed by Donald Roebling for hurricane rescue work in Florida swamps) kept going, climbed over the barriers, crawled up on the beaches, ranged inland. Their tanklike, clanking steel treads worked...
...from the Fifth. The Fifth Army's problem was not a ridge but a pass. Through a break in the mountains around Mignano, 15 miles inland from the Tyrrhenian Sea, runs a main highway to Rome, known since ancient days as the Via Casilina. Entrenched on 3,000-ft. height overlooking the Mignano gate, the Germans had stalemated General Clark's weather-logged British and American troops for almost a month...
...forehead with a grimy sleeve, said: "Well, I think we're winning, but the bastards have got a lot of bullets left. I think we'll clean up tomorrow." The Colonel was right. On the third day the Japs began to fall apart. The Marines advanced inland at a mounting pace, overran Betio's valuable airfield, bottled the Japs in the island's tail...