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...hundred ships. When he was about half a mile away he caught fire, started to roll over. What looked like an engine or a large piece of engine flew out and ricocheted along the water. The plane hit the water. Chunks of plane sailed past our boat. A stream of flame shot past a hospital ship near by. Then the peril set in. Our own antiaircraft fragments started splashing around. I wished fervently that I had worn my helmet...
Moving Fast. By nightfall the Tenth Army had a solid beachhead more than three miles deep in some places and more than eight miles wide. Within the beachhead, safely in U.S. hands, were the Yontan and Kadena airfields. Supplies were pouring ashore in a steady stream. The next day, against scattered resistance, they pushed on to the east coast, cut the island...
...landborne outfits were ready at H-hour. On the Twenty-first Army Group's north front, soon after the first troops had crossed in assault boats, the Navy's ramp-bowed craft came rolling up to the Rhine on mammoth trucks and were quickly launched. Soon a stream of LCVPs and LCMs were ferrying men, tanks, guns, bulldozers, hundreds of drums of gasoline to the east banks. Power launches and other small craft shuttled the Rhine in such profusion that amazed U.S. correspondents mumbled that the place looked like the Poughkeepsie Regatta...
Last week balding, tireless Correspondent Lochner, 58, was hard at it. His latest stories seemed as Sax Rohmerish as the "informed" reports that stream incessantly from the rumor factories of Stockholm, Lisbon and Berne. But many a U.S. editor, recalling Lochner's Pulitzer prestige, gingerly played them deadpan. Sample Lochner...
...produce a memorandum book, quickly draw a diagram of the room, and note in it precisely the position of each chair and its occupant's name. If he nervously pulled a handkerchief from his pocket, a cascade of carefully graded pennies, shillings and half crowns was likely to stream onto the floor. At this, he would hurriedly fill the teapot and pace up & down swinging it, for ten minutes exactly -"he claimed the tea was better...