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Alsace-Lorraine: rural, albeit earthly-wise, natural type; not the type for a casual affair; eminently wholesome but, withal, drab. Luxembourg: a puzzle. With all the outward appurtenances of modernity they still are, well, provincial. Belgium: a decided improvement (especially in the Arlon-Bastogne sector). The female form begins to show signs of having been groomed for its primary purpose...
...month the 82nd fought as infantry before it was pulled back to England to rest. In September it made another drop, this time in the Nijmegen sector in Holland. In December, near Stavelot, the 82nd fought on the northern side of the Ardennes bulge, while the loist staged its epic stand to the south, at Bastogne. The 82nd finished the European war fighting with the British Second Army at Wittenburg...
...production is cut back, first in one sector and then in another, business activity and unemployment may fluctuate violently and in different directions, from industry to industry and place to place. Some areas, some industries and some plants will work full blast while others face crises, and swift changes will continually alter the picture...
...task to safeguard order and the civilian population in all spheres of public life. To carry out this task all military and civilian authorities in my sector have been subordinated to me. ... I expect unquestioned devotion to duty and obedience to this order...
...suddenly the four-months' lull on his "forgotten front" was over, the fight was on. The roads, towns, supply depots of his natural fortress were being blasted from the air. In the British sector 3.400 high-explosive bombs. 180,000 fragmentation bombs, rained on his troops. Allied flame-throwing tanks moved...