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Seven months-and some new men-had made a startling difference. In May, WPB had been forced to cancel war contracts right & left: the planning had got out of hand, the program was overexpanded, raw-material supply was in a black mess. WPB and the Army were in a knock-down fight for authority...
NORTH AFRICA--American tanks and British infantry are consolidating their positions on ground re-won in the bitter tank battle of Tebourba, official dispatches said tonight, and the Morocco radio reported the Allies were laying down a fierce big gun barrage against Axis lines while building up for a knock-out punch in Tunisia...
...favorite indoor sports in those days were operating for hernia, breaking legs and thighs for bow legs, knock-knees, tying off hemorrhoids, opening psoas [loin] abscesses, subcutaneously operating for varicose veins, scarifying and chiseling osteomyelitis, traumatic amputations, trephinings [skull operations] for injuries, lifting breasts off for carcinoma and putting up fractures...
Hitler's 1942 campaign to knock Russia out of the war, to win oil and Lebensraum, had ended without having achieved a single important strategic objective. Leningrad and Stalingrad still stood at two ends of a ragged, frozen, 1,000-mile front...
Bombings: "If the enemy thinks he can wear us down, he errs. And I assure you the hour will come when I will strike back with compound interest. They will learn over there that German inventive genius has not been idle and they will get an answer which will knock them deaf and blind...