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...Main Chance. Looking eastward across the swollen but subsiding Roer, Bill Simpson last week faced the greatest chance of his career. In his sector, the Ninth was almost all the way through the concrete fortifications of the Westwall. But the Germans have backed up the older defenses with new labyrinths of trenches, mines, barbed wire, fortified villages and fortified houses. Simpson has already learned how the Germans can fight in such defenses...
...Japanese "fadeback" from Manila proved to be illusory. The enemy, it appeared, had not flatly lied when he boasted that the city was being fortified for resistance block by block, building by building; he had merely told a half-truth. It was not true in the northern sector of Manila, on the right bank of the Pasig River; it was all too true of the southern sector, on the left bank...
...filled Russian juggernaut (apparently neither could an unseasonable thaw). The Germans, too, felt the Russian fury as tons of shells bored holes in the grey, low-hanging clouds and burst in sprays of red-hot fragments. On a 140-mile front, north & south of the Küstrin-Frankfurt sector, Zhukov kept the skies alight with his massed artillery as he fought to reach the Oder...
...uphill all the way. The Japs had big guns emplaced. Though some of these were knocked out, the enemy clung stubbornly to pillboxes and other fixed defenses. Most of the 1,017 Americans announced as killed in the first three weeks of the campaign had died in this sector, where the 43rd Division (Major General Leonard F. Wing) and the 158th Regimental Combat Team (Brigadier General Hanford MacNider) were fighting...
...correspondent counted 4,000 rude crosses in the Filipino burial ground; another saw "thousands" in the American sector...