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Now Sullivan's beaver-busy wreckers worked to clear the inner harbor, so ships could maneuver inside Manila's sea wall. After that they would move on, to tidy some other grisly graveyard. Danger was their business - Sullivan had picked some of his veterans out of the New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: The Wreckers | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

A trip to the China front is always an adventure. It is a bastard combination of hitchhiking by airplane, truck and jeep over a supply line roughly equal to the distance between London and Berlin. It is climaxed always by inevitable concluding hours on foot. It rarely takes less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Farewell Performance | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

Final Phase? As the weather began to clear, U.S. troops plowed on to the next and perhaps final phase of the battle for Okinawa. In a quick amphibious maneuver, the Marines reached around the enemy's lines beyond the city, fought their way onto Naha airfield, largest in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Shuri's Fail | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

Instantly all parties protested. Cried the Communist L'Unità: an "intimidating maneuver." Sighed the monarchist Italia Nuova: a "regrettable incident." Embarrassed, the Allied military authorities released Nenni, hinted that his arrest was due to the excessive zeal of an Allied M.P.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Excessive Zeal | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

Wedemeyer and his staff have received unprecedented cooperation from the Generalissimo. From the beginning, Chiang appreciated Wedemeyer's cordiality, recognized his brilliance. When the American, in a daring battle maneuver last fall, flew crack Chinese units from Burma* and the Chinese Communist border region (with Chiang's assent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The New Army | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

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