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About once a week, the A.M.P.'s pile into cars and snoop around industrial plants in the Greater Boston area as part of the "know the other man's business" part of the program...
...Sunchon, a South Korean soldier pointed out the bodies of seven American soldiers who had starved to death. Then, on the bridge above the tunnel, appeared five haggard, hysterical G.I.s. They guided General Allen to a small gully where a heap of 17 bodies lay hidden by underbrush. Another pile of 15 lay sprawled in a cornfield. Others lay in a mass grave by the railroad tracks. General Allen counted 68 dead. There were 21 survivors, who were immediately flown to Japan...
...Pile of Corpses. Yvonne was taken to Ravensburg concentration camp. For insubordination, she received 30 lashes and was committed to the care of the Nazis' sadistic quacks in the Ravensburg Experimental Station. Eight injections of poison in her right eye blinded it. Other injections destroyed the hearing nerve in one ear. Then the Nazis injected typhus into her blood to make serum. In the typhus block they did not bother to feed prisoners. The countess' last memory of Ravensburg was of feebly trying to fend off a ravenous woman prisoner turned cannibal. Two days later Yvonne awoke...
History's Biggest Pile of Rubble. No one could predict with any great confidence or in any specific detail what would happen next. But civil defense officials could visualize, at least, what would have to be done...
From across the rivers would roll contraptions for clearing roads-bulldozers, road scrapers, clamshell scoops, cranes resembling prehistoric monsters-to try to cope somehow with history's biggest pile of rubble. Medical squads would treat the maimed and the burned, administer blood, try to save the thousands of victims of shock, who would die within a few hours if they were untended...