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...Asheville's Grove Park Inn (cost for soldiers, nothing; for soldiers wives, $1.50 a day) Corporal and Mrs. Harry Paczynski of Erie, Pa. were still pinching themselves. Said Mrs. Paczynski, after wandering through the huge, hushed lounge of the great grey stone pile: "Sometimes I wonder if I'm dreaming...
They still valued Ploesti enough to put up a stout fight for it. They fought from hastily improvised fortifications and turned their antiaircraft guns on the attackers before Malinovsky's pile driver smashed them. When they fled, they fired the wells and tanks...
...middle of the courtyard was a growing pile of grey and blondined hair. At the Chartres police station patriots were shaving the heads of women collaborationists. There were old ones who had operated black markets. There were young, blowsy ones who had sold themselves to the Germans. The women, their shaved heads bowed, were lined up against a wall...
Backing up Navin as reserve number four backs are Bob Chapple, star on the baseball nine, who is now ready for action on the gridiron, Rusty Hankin, and George O'Day. Chapple's pile-driving smashes through the line stood out on Saturday for the red team; Hankin was injured and is temporarily out of action...
...Michael's Cathedral at Alexishaven, a modest pile, was nevertheless one of the oldest buildings in New Guinea, which meant that it was around 50 years old. And it was a church; B-25 pilots disliked the job of destroying it. But it looked as if they would have to do it: Fifth Air Force intelligence learned that it was being used by the Japs as a military storehouse...