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...ritifs were omitted, being unnecessary. The soup course was dispensed with, for lack of ingredients. The salad was absent, black-market prices prohibiting. The main course, occupying a pitifully small central part of the table, consisted of a medium-sized plateful of home-fried potatoes (perhaps five potatoes in all), a two-inch slice of Spam (for four people), obtained God knows where, and, through the generosity of an Allied soldier, a couple of ounces of spread-on meat. Unappetizing black bread, ungarnished even by margarine, completed not only the course, but the dinner. Coffee (2,000 francs a kilo...
...Landing Ships, Medium) came alongside Fort Drum pirate fashion. While scow-like LCVPs pushed to hold it against the concrete portside, soldiers raced across a wooden ramp, dropped like a Roman drawbridge from the LSM's superstructure to the fort's topside. The Japs had time for only a few shots; they wounded a sailor in the neck, a soldier in the hand and nicked the brow of the task force's dashing commander, Colonel Robert H. Soule. Then, while the soldiers covered all ports, the LCM pumped 1,800 gallons of gasoline and oil into...
First, there must be background for the girl. She must not be too guilty; yet she must not have been "framed." In an effort to find the happy medium between innocence and culpability, the movie's writers have evolved a self-defense manslaughter charge that a third-rate Yale law student could break down in ten minutes, with the result that for the rest of the film one can think only that the entire procedure is unnecessary...
Belatedly the island empire awoke to its peril. With Buckner on Okinawa, even medium U.S. bombers could soon roam Japanese skies. Communications with China would be endangered. The homeland itself faced invasion. In Japanese, "Okinawa" means "Rope off in the Sea"; in any language, it now spelled doom...
...Marine regiment walked across Yontan airfield, one of the biggest in Okinawa Gunto, less than 400 miles from Kyushu. Casualties (from halfhearted snipers): very light. Planes could make emergency landings on the airfield now. A few hours of Seabee sweating would make it an excellent take-off point for medium bombers to fly to China, to Japan, to Formosa-all approximately 400 miles distant-and to knock out whatever chance the Japs might have left of shipping anything from the south or southwest to the homeland. The soldiers of one seasoned division captured the Kadena fighter strip by knocking...