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Skillful German rearguards fitted the rains into the pattern of delaying action. Mines under the firm roads forced Allied columns to flounder in the gumbo beside the highways. Demolition charges toppled bridges into angry streams. Shielded by low clouds from strafing planes, the rear guards huddled in orchards and behind stone walls, sniped viciously with rifle, machine gun and mortar...
...rally the Italian people and army "against the common enemy," the Allied High Command seemed to have worked out this pattern at Malta: >The U.S. and Britain would accept the Badoglio regime as a cobelligerent. But the line between cobelligerent and ally was hard to draw. Allied soldiers were already finding Badoglio officials unwilling to be treated as defeated enemies...
Last week was one of those times in the war when the pattern of great affairs is revealed for a moment before it submerges again beneath the mass of everyday concerns...
MacArthur's offensive proved that trained men and modern equipment, skillfully employed, could rout the Japs in their own jungles. The attack had a precise pattern. MacArthur, less than a year ago converted to air power, used it masterfully. His planes pinned down the Japs at the bases from which they might otherwise have launched counterblows. Airborne infantry and amphibious forces caught the Japs in one trap after another. Bombers and artillery, concentrating on the Japs' encircled positions, pulverized them before Allied troops moved in. The enemy scattered and fled or died. Up to this week some...
...shirt and tie were also grey, the latter a silver grey cravat tied in a Windsor knot. The black spotted pattern of the tie harmonied perfectly with the black and grey of his suit...