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...wild storm lashed across Italy, driving before it torrents of blinding rain. Winds of gale force tore up trees, whipped dirt roads and open fields into bogs and mud-wallows. Through it all, soldiers fought, toe to toe, steel to steel...
...capture of Kwajalein tore open the Jap's far-flung outer defense, already punctured at the Gilberts and ruptured in the south. Allied forces pressed against Japan's inner ocean frontier. Now, with the initiative completely in their hands, Allied strategists had to decide: What next...
There was a quick deafening scream, then a shell exploded a few feet away from the farmhouse. Dirt splattered through the stable windows on to the doughboys lying in the straw and manure inside. Another shell tore open the black soil near by. Four bundles of feathers fluttered from the hen house down to the ground. "If all they get is chickens, we've got a good day ahead," 'said Toffey. Three more explosions within 25 yards shook the house and stable. A wide-eyed replacement raised his head from the floor and gasped: "Them's bombs...
Late in the morning the sun tore the haze into milky shreds. With the visibility good, German machine guns, mortars, artillery opened up. The Germans sat behind their log-and-stone defenses and shouted in English: "Yank, give up." Or, "Major Brown says surrender...
Four of them were over Germany, and on the last one his luck almost ran out. He was flying as top-turret gunner over Münster when a flak burst hit the turret dome, shattered his goggles, tore off his oxygen mask. Copilot and radioman pulled him down and revived him with an emergency mask. After that, Ben got his orders for home...