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...Army General Markian Popov, the captor of Karachev. The Red Command regards this tall, thin, long-necked man with a schoolboy's face as one of the most daring of its young generals; it has jumped him two grades since April. A tank expert, he won his spurs fighting the Japanese in 1939. Some two years later his columns decimated the Italian Army in the Don loop, continued to race into the Ukraine until they bogged down in the mud and ran out of fuel. The Red Command forgave him. When the hour struck for the summer offensive, Popov...
When he became Secretary, Leger had written two thin books of verse, Eloges (1910) and Anabase (his most talked-about poem, 1924). Most Frenchmen never heard of these symbolistic efforts and most of those who did thought them as tortuous and intangible as Leger's diplomacy. But they were well read (says Hemispheres Editor Goll) at the superrealistic Wilhelmstrasse...
...western air front the Germans have concentrated 50 to 60% of their total strength in fighter planes. They have stripped the Russian front to a thin cover of fighters, almost denuded the Mediterranean front. All their new fighter production is being sent to the west, and with it their best pilots. They are using every known tactic of air warfare and many new ones to break up the formations of big Allied bombers raiding Germany by day and by night. They have bombed them from the air, have devised planes to carry rocket guns. They are ' massing their fighters...
...mayor's office we found a few of the living wounded that our soldiers had pulled out of the wreckage. On a wooden bench lay the thin form of a girl about ten years old. Her black hair was streaked with grey powder plaster. One of her legs was completely wrapped in bandages which our company had placed there. In her two hands she clutched a cracker which a soldier had given her. She didn't move, but only stared at the ceiling...
...parts; some he passed without tests. The fitting joined the right wing strut to the fuselage. Once it was welded into place, its weakness was hidden from final assembly inspections. But when the glider cut loose from the tow plane on its maiden flight, new stresses snapped the too-thin steel. The craft plummeted 1,500 feet...