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...fast and sudden was Rotmistrov's tank thrust, the Germans had no time to halt it. Then the Red artillery began to pound the encircled Germans, the air force launched its air blockade. In 14 days, 179 three-engined Junkers bringing in food and ammunition were shot down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Tanker's Triumph | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

They're like a football game. You want your gunners to hit those planes so bad, and you see the tracers creeping up on them, and all of a sudden a plane bursts into flames and comes down. I saw six shot down in one raid outside Bizerte. . . ." Some things have been especially diffi cult for her. One ("The worst moment I've ever had in my life") happened at a hospital in Kairouan. Bob Hope asked her to sing for a young pilot in bed with a sheet tucked up to his chin. He suggested Night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: G.I. Nightingale | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

They threw heavy, sudden attacks around the rim of the beachhead, probing for a soft spot, using tanks and assault guns as mobile artillery. Where they found the going reasonably good they poured on the pressure ruthlessly. From the beachhead, N.Y. Herald Tribune Correspondent Homer Bigart radioed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ITALY: Out of the Storm | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...week after the capture of Naples. Lang came very near being killed in the bombing explosion that wrecked the post office. "I had just seated myself next door when it happened," he cabled. "A sudden overwhelming roar, then shattered glass tinkling all around us. It was dark; huge masses of black smoke blotted the light from the room. A wild dissonant chorus of pain pierced up from the Via Cesare Battista. There were some 30 bodies and parts of bodies strewn in death's strange shapes over the street. And there were many others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 14, 1944 | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...Lowell's sudden increase of $3016 in three days put it far ahead of the previous leader. Dunster House, which is now second with a total of $2680. Adams is still close on the heels of the Funsters, but now trails...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSES' QUOTA TRIPLED IN FOURTH BOND DRIVE | 2/11/1944 | See Source »

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