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Twelve days after the landings, no connected, firsthand account of all the battles in the British, U.S. and Canadian sectors had reached the U.S. Like the soldiers, the front-line correspondents saw only the shapes of their particular hells. Of the accounts which did arrive, the clearest told of the crisis in an American sector, near the juncture of the Sele and Galore Rivers, where Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's forces almost pushed...
TIME Correspondent Will Lang was with a U.S. regiment in that sector. Many of its officers and men were Oklahomans. The regiment was one of several units ordered to march inland, seize high ground commanding a key bridge on the Sele and forestall what finally happened-the German thrust which almost split the beachhead. Said the regiment's Colonel, explaining the orders to his battalion officers: "It's pretty far inland and we don't know exactly what the enemy's got in that area. But it must be urgent to get that high ground...
Closer to the Dnieper than Rokossovsky were his teammates, Army Generals Nikolai Vatutin, whose sector hung over Poltava, and Rodion Malinovsky, now almost within gun range of Zaporozhe...
...attempt to make a show out of war is not an isolated incident. It is virtually a daily occurrence on every American fighting front. Soldiers have huddled in foxholes under heavy aerial bombardment while their radios told them that U.S. forces had complete control of the air over that sector. They have come out of action, blind with weariness, just in time to get a cheerful little radio earful about what they had just been through...
...leathery skin and a head as bare as a billiard ball, he is one of the dwindling number of oldtimers who survived the test of this war. Like Popov, he headed an army in the Far East before the war. When Hitler struck, Konev was in the vital Gomel sector, fighting stubbornly for each foot of the muddy terrain. In the battle for Moscow, he held the southern anchor of the defense line, soundly drubbed the renowned Nazi tankman, Colonel General Heinz Guderian. Marshal Zhukov once said of him: "Let Konev play his own game under his own rules...