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Thousands in San Francisco, in Oakland and Alameda, in towns for 50 miles around, saw the glare in the sky and, seconds later, felt a rumbling earth shock. Windows broke in houses 20 miles away. Telephone lines were down; many a doctor and nurse blundered for hours before they found the scene of the disaster. It was dawn before Port Chicago could see what had happened...
Leghorn, Italy's third largest port, was outflanked. Lieut. General Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army sidestepped fantastically thick mine fields on the Tyrrhenian coast by swinging in its shock troops, including Hawaiian-Japanese (see ARMY & NAVY) from the east, forced the Germans to pull...
Nearly all wounded men brought to field and evacuation hospitals go first to "pre-ops" or "shock tents." There they lie pale and uncomplaining in the eerie, khaki shadows of a single string of overhead lights while they absorb whole blood or plasma. Blood is a miraculous strength-giver. In 20 minutes drooping eyelids lift, eyes become clear and focused. Normal color returns, and the men chat with the nurses and ask for a cigaret. Then they go on operating tables, where wounds too horrible to describe get enough patchwork to allow them to go safely to England...
...tent and brooded for hours. Finally he cabled his New York office that he could not write the Darlan story. Instead he wrote about the stranger who had died in the ditch beside him. For days he talked of giving up and going home. But when the shock wore off, he knew for sure that his job was not with the generals and their strategems but with the little onetime drugstore cowboys, clerks and mechanics who had no one else to tell their stories...
...real shock came not from Washington but from London: in response to U.S. urging, the British reluctantly recalled their Ambassador, Sir David Victor Kelly. Argentine nationalists have long believed that Britain was their firm, beef-eating friend, even if the U.S. was not. Ambassador Kelly's recall, threatening joint action by Britain and the U.S., shook this happy notion...