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...work. Three vast plants were built: at Oak Ridge, Tenn., 19 miles west of Knoxville; at Pasco, in the sagebrush country of northwest Washington, 150 miles southwest of Seattle; and at Los Alamos, N.M., 30 miles northwest of Santa...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek gave him a dinner and the Order of Blue Sky and White Sun. Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander of U.S. forces in China, gave him an Oak Leaf Cluster for his Distinguished Service Medal. In mass tribute, 163 grateful Chinese organizations gave him 500,000 Chinese dollars ($12,500 U.S.), a gold key to Chungking, an embroidered umbrella, a souvenir book and a scroll...
...Britain's inner defenses against Hitlerism, something the Führer himself would never have understood, was a modest little feature tucked in the back columns of the London Times. It was neither more nor less than a daily quotation, usually, but not always, from the oak-timbered British past, "a passage old and true [to] keep high the heart and fortify the mind." Samples...
Broadcasting "the last High Command communique of this war," the voice of Flensburg first saluted the German troops on the Vistula who had "gallantly" fought the Red Army "to the very last." To their commander went the last German decoration of World War II: diamonds for the oak leaves (with swords) on his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The voice continued...
...Every screwball with thick lenses and a long haircut is setting up shop as an expert on the returning veteran. If you wife or sweetheart runs behind a good, solid oak table when you finally go bounding in the front door, don't say we didn't warn...