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...left lies the narrow Liri Valley, through which leads the only practical road-but it is not passable so long as the Germans can pour deadly fire from the hills behind Cassino. This was proved in the first attack last January. U.S. troops crossed the Rapido (in the foreground), only to be forced to retire after heavy casualties...
...historians looked back to the classic battles of landbound days, and wondered if this might be the stage when the weaker side had committed its reserves and was failing. Then the stronger would strike the knockout blow. He would send in his cavalry, ripping through the flagging line, then pour infantry through the breach while his horsemen drove on, carving a decision in the enemy's disorganized rear areas...
Counted on Comando Unico's side were party politicians, exiles in Montevideo, important bodies of troops both in Buenos Aires and the provinces. The Navy steamed into the harbor. Communists, Socialists, Radicals were eager to pour their multitudes into the streets. Even the Catholic Church, which has favored authoritarianism on the clerical Franco model, was turning against the militarists. Several high clerics, many humble priests were warning good Catholics to shun them...
Corporal John N. Ryback: "The Germans are yellow. They pour it in with machine guns but they hate cold steel. The boys coming back tell us that...
...front-the Caribbean. When Frances Langford gets there the next week or so, she can expect the same kind of admiration she has inspired in homesick doughboys from Alaska to Sicily. No other female entertainer in World War II can touch it. "She knows just how much sex to pour and still be dignified," is Bob Hope's explanation. General Eisenhower, who has misgivings about women entertainers at the front, was so moved by her impact upon his North African troops that he thanked her warmly, "especially for the way you've conducted yourself...