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...President Manuel Avila Camacho. Their plea: he loved them so much that he had rebelled against a transfer which would have separated him from his family. His sentence commuted to public disgrace, he stood at the center of a circle of troops. An officer plucked off his buttons, tore off his triple bars. Then, to the roll of muffled drums, he marched around the circle. As he passed, each soldier turned his back. At the end, he embraced his daughter...
...seething Copenhagen, Danes with rifles and machine guns ignored the rigid curfew, fought Germans armed with tanks and planes. Next day, upwards of 15,000 joined a general strike, shut down Danish war production. Stores closed, transportation stopped, telephones and telegraphs ceased to function. Crowds tore down pictures of Hitler, made bonfires of Nazi posters, books and pamphlets. Barricades appeared along with the flags of Denmark, Britain, the U.S. and Russia. Exultant Danes mingled scraps of The Star-Spangled Banner and God Save the King with their own sonorous anthem. The second night 700 Danes were killed or wounded. Then...
...Saipan, at least two divisions of U.S. marines, plus Army infantry, tore into the bloodiest Pacific fighting since Tarawa. The Navy's guns had admirably covered their landings, but the island was too mountainous for either naval guns or air bombing to decide the inland fighting...
Three other battalion commanders in our northern force were wounded the first day. One of them, one of the best known figures in the armed forces, was struck by a 13-mm. shell which punctured his lung, and five pieces of artillery shrapnel which tore into his arm and wrist. I saw him in a foxhole just after the doctors had dressed his wounds...
Wake and Midway. On that day four battered old Grummans of Fighter Squadron 211 clattered up into the air over Wake Island and tore into the Jap naval force creeping over the horizon. In that pitiful and heroic last stand the Marine flyers set one enemy ship afire, sank a cruiser. Said a presidential citation: "The courageous conduct . . . will not be forgotten as long as gallantry and heroism are respected and honored...