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Before Mr. Graham could say "Canol," the U.S. was committed to a project requiring 200,000 tons of shipping space, hundreds of vital priorities, shiploads of precious refinery equipment, 4,000 troops, 12,000 civilians. Prospectors probed for oil 75 miles south of the Arctic circle; roads sprang up through Canada's frozen wilder ness; shivering crews stretched 4-in. pipe line from Norman Wells on the Mackenzie River across 500 miles of barren north west territory to Whitehorse on the Yukon...
...Rumania. By week's end General Vatutin's men were less than 65 miles from the pre-1939 Rumanian frontier. At Kirovograd and other points on the salient's rim the Red Army hacked off and trapped hunks of the enemy. The Wehrmacht had spent precious, dwindling reserves in the November-December counterdrive west of Kiev. Now the hard question facing Manstein was not whether he could hold the salient, but whether he could get out of it in time. The Russians spoke of many prisoners taken, of "disorganized" Wehrmacht columns "powerless to stem our troops...
...this talk added up to two strong implications: 1) the British were shirking, and 2) the U.S. High Command was foolhardy, at the expense of American lives. The Axis radio, delighted by the whole discussion, purred the inevitable question at U.S. listeners: "Is British blood too precious to spill on the sands of the Channel or the North Sea?" (With reverse reasoning, the Axis taunted Britain: "Whatever the initial contribution of the Yankees ... it will rest with the British to reinforce the failure of the enterprise or else to take the responsibility for its liquidation...
Busiest Christmas was probably Dick Lauterbach's in snow-covered Moscow. Christmas Eve there was a get-together for the little American colony-Christmas Day he played Father Frost by distributing precious American soap to the hotel staff-and next day he impersonated Ambassador Harriman in the annual Moscow correspondents' show...
When Hitler invaded Russia, Bagramian was a colonel. Five months later, tough Bagramian was a lieutenant general. He became tough Marshal Semion Timoshenko's Assistant Chief of Staff, tasted the bitterness of defeat, learned precious lessons...