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...violent stream of artillery and machine-gun fire tore the platoon positions. Said Private Fadel: "We weren't fooled any longer. Our artillery started knocking hell out of the houses across the river, and when men in pith helmets came rushing from the buildings, screaming for mercy, we opened up at them with everything we had. We wouldn't let them go after that trick...
...Because publishing a magazine was a new experience for this office, we underestimated the manpower needed for binding, wrapping, delivery. So the entire staff, its friends, the executives of our lithographing company and their wives were all busy wrapping magazines. I tore out the rear seat of the staff car and personally trucked sixty 80-pound mail bags to the post office to meet the deadline...
...night happy crowds surged through Moscow's streets, and fireworks tore the darkness to flaming shreds. Cannon roared a 20-gun salute. Silent for months, antiaircraft guns now traced fiery zigzags across the sky. Red Square was ablaze with light...
...first were the British 78th Division (veterans of Tunisia's Long Stop Hill), the soth Northumbrians and the 51st Highlanders. Between Centuripe and Paterno they tangled in the hardest struggle of the campaign. But the men that punched forward and the men left behind broke the Etna line, tore away Catania's flank...
Germans Backward. On the retreat to Messina there was no rest for the Germans. The big guns of U.S. warships tore into them on the north coast road; the Royal Navy ripped the highway on the island's other side. Over Messina converged the Allied air arm, bombing and gunning, by day and night, the barges and small boats shuttling Germans from Sicily to Italy, from the whirlpool of Charybdis to the rock of Scylla...