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They opened up with a hail of machine-gun fire, shooting from cellars, from shell holes, from behind any pile of stone or debris. There was no way to discourage them except the classical infantry way: a personal bullet, a private grenade, an individual bayonet thrust...
...This is where a bulldozer, digging into a pile of blackened earth, shattered timbers and twisted metal, rolls out the body of a Japanese soldier, recognizable only by the stained uniform...
...pair of salvage-pile symphonists took time out recently to display their devotion to one of the oldest, most discordant traditions in U.S. show business: the One-Man Band. Their meeting for the "world championship" occurred on the Blue Network's Breakfast Club (8 a.m., C.W.T...
...into the northern edge of town. They dug in. At dusk the order came : "Tanks will leave town. Infantry will stay." During the night more doughfoots moved in. The Germans counterattacked at dawn, were held and pushed back, then settled down to a fierce defense of every house, every pile of ruins...
...years of Fascism. Their food supplies are low. Typhus and a half-dozen other diseases follow in the wake of the Allied armies. And as the advance goes forward, more Italian cities are left in ruins, more civilians are killed, more are made homeless, more problems of rehabilitation pile...