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...strength, but it must run into hundreds of thousands. In the Army of the Bryansk Forest alone, 3,200 men and women won guerrilla and Red Army decorations. Other "Armies of the Forest" -between Kiev and Zhitomir (see map), in the Pripet Marshes, in White Russia and the Crimean Peninsula-are as big, or bigger...
...Allied trudge up the Italian boot had fallen behind schedule. Skillful, vicious delaying tactics had won time enough for the Germans to build a strong defense line across the peninsula at its narrowest (80 miles) point between Naples and Rome. Against that formidable barricade the British and U.S. armies lunged last week...
...invasion of Italy with the hope of thwarting any major German stand below Rome. But the time table had been disrupted at Salerno. There, by General Sir Harold Alexander's admission (TIME, Nov. 1), the Germans had upset the Fifth Army's plan to sweep across the peninsula, pinch off southern Italy. Other factors had further slowed the Allied advance...
...Hasty Pudding Club on Sunday evening, October 24, Mr. J. W. F. Macdonald will show a group of his colored slides of the White Mountains and the Gaspe Peninsula. The program will start at 7:45 o'clock, after the regular usual buffet supper...
...amphibious landing in their rear had caught the Germans by surprise, so completely that a major had been captured in bed. The enemy's next reaction had been alarm, for the Eighth's rapid advance could develop into a flank attack against the Germans on the peninsula's other side. From the Volturno front Field Marshal Albert Kesselring rushed the 16th Armored Division, veteran of Stalingrad and Salerno, to counterattack at Termoli...