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Young Keyes, working with a captain and a sergeant, was foraging for Rommel. He opened the door of a second room. It was dark, but the three Britons could hear suppressed breathing inside. Keyes ran in, firing his pistol. He was met with a volley and fell in the doorway. The sergeant climbed over his body and sprayed the room with gunfire. The Germans fired back. The British captain dashed into the room and yelled "duck." The captain then blew the room apart with two hand grenades. He and the sergeant carried Colonel Keyes's body outside...
...into every window. The captain ran around the rear of the building to supervise these operations. A stray bullet broke his leg. As his colleagues carried him to safety, he ordered them to take his two remaining grenades and blow up the power plant. Then the captain ordered the sergeant to prop him against a tree and leave because the Commandos had a rendezvous with the evacuating forces. The sergeant gave the captain a shot of morphine, then with the others started for the sea, leaving Keyes's body and the wounded captain behind...
Gary Cooper took honors as top actor of the year (for Sergeant York) with 14 votes on the first ballot. His nearest competitor: Orson (Citizen Kane) Welles, 2. Top actress: Joan Fontaine (for Suspicion). Neck-and-neck with her up to the sixth ballot: Sister Olivia de Havilland (for Hold Back the Dawn). Best Director: John Ford (for How Green Was My Valley)-voted best for the third year running. Welles lost that honor by only two votes...
Jane Wyman, self-acclaimed kissing champion of Hollywood and honorary top sergeant, pondered Britain's code-wary ban on Xs in love letters, dreamed up a substitute: lipstick impressions. "I wish every girl who writes to a soldier would send them," she confessed to the newspapers...
Douglas MacArthur was born at an Arkansas Army post. When he was four his mother and a company sergeant sheltered him from an Indian raid. He entered West Point in 1899. MacArthur was First Corporal as a Yearling, Ranking First Sergeant as a Second Classman, First Captain as a First Classman, graduated first in his class, with the highest scholastic record in 25 years, to enter the Army's Corps of Engineers. Between times at the Academy, the legend says, he became engaged to eight different girls...