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Having filled out our fitness reports, the incidence of billet fever should become high. Many men are torn between choosing what they would like to do and what they think others would expect then to do. Some do not want to disk for shore billets because they do not want to appear to be evading combat service. Our own feeling in the matter is that each man should indicate the place and position in which he thinks he can be of greatest service to the Navy. That is the important thing and if everyone will follow that rule the overall...
...conquest of Sicily and the Italian invasion, the biggest news of the war had an air of anticlimax. The U.S., by & large, greeted the collapse of Fascism's cradle with almost complacent indifference. An old New York custom sent down a brief explosion of ticker tape and torn telephone-book pages from its sky scraper windows; on Mulberry Street the sad-eyed people of "Little Italy" over came their hurt long enough to pretend to celebrate for the benefit of news photographers. But otherwise, as in the rest of the U.S., the first sharp ripple of excitement, the first...
...Since 1912 the patient sponge divers and herdsmen, the shipwrights and honey gatherers had watched their Italian masters strut in the bright Aegean sun. Since 1912 they had heard Vittorio Emanuele's ministers of state promise again & again to end the lawless stay and had seen those promises torn up. Greek in race, religion and language, they fought Italian efforts to Italianize them...
Tolbukhin's victory was the reward of daring. After a gap was torn in the Nazi lines north of Taganrog, his tanks and Cossacks rushed in, then wheeled south towards the sea. Other units, meanwhile, stormed Taganrog's front gates. When the din of battle died down, 35,000 Nazi corpses littered the steppe, 5,100 dejected survivors straggled into prisoner pens...
...many of us think cynically of government these days in terms of the war-torn agencies such...