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...career as an infantry officer, Major Tim Sheldon had poured "a gallon of living into a pint pot of time." Battle-beaten at 24, he felt like an old man. What Tim Sheldon was really looking forward to, when his North Africa sector quieted down one day, was two, maybe three successive nights of sleep. But Division HQ wanted to know whether the Germans had pulled out of White Farm. There was only one way to find out. Somebody had to cross no man's land and look...
Troops: 58 Western divisions (27 U.S., British, West European, in the central sector; 31 Greek, Turkish, in the southeast). Maximum strength: 700,000 men. Help in war might also come from Yugoslavia (32 small divisions...
...Ville Verte. Le Corbusier envisions Chandigarh (pop. 150,000) as a magnificent ville verte (green city) - 14 square miles of gardens and buildings, with a center complex of government buildings surrounded by 25 self-sufficient residential sectors. Each sector will have its own bazaar, clinic, nursery school, police station, bank, cinema and swimming pool, will include 128 houses built according to 13 different designs...
Taken to a villa in the British sector, he was asked more questions by British intelligence agents. Soon Klose began to understand: they were looking for another Klose, a former Abwehr (counterespionage) officer, about 20 years older, whose first name was Erich or Emil. Monotonously, Hans Klose repeated that he was the wrong Klose: not Erich but Hans, not 54 years old but 34, not an ex-officer but an ex-private in the Wehrmacht. A British sergeant snapped, "You lie." Hans Klose produced his Wehrpass (military identity card); the British shrugged. They turned him over to the Russian army...
...Another epic story [that] someday must be told," says Marshall, is the vain and valiant struggle put up by units of the X Corps and the First Marine Division manning the eastern sector of the U.S. front...