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...hours in the light from burning ships I saw someone floating in the water, I thought he was one of my shipmates who had been wounded. I swam over to see if I could help him. I was pretty weak myself from loss of blood. My jaw was torn open-about three and one-half inches-and I had two other wounds, one on my thigh and one on my ankle. But I didn't know about them then...
...greatest Fascist hour. To change the onetime chamber of the Congreso de los Diputados to a hall fit for grandees, the offending red upholstered seats were changed to blue. Marble tables bearing honor rolls of past liberal leaders were removed. Paintings and inscriptions distasteful to the Falange were torn from the walls. The President of the Cortes' dais was raised to befitting Fascist level. Special space was allotted to the junta of the Falange. Carefully, it was seen that no accommodation for public or press should be available. Everything that recalled any liberal period since the Cortes...
...memorandum which proposed the basis of an operational union. In that speech Giraud promised liberated Frenchmen that they could, if they chose, revive the Third Republic. He announced the abrogation of Vichy's anti-Jewish laws. Last week posters portraying the weary features of Marshal Henri Petain were torn from the walls of public buildings. Not all traces of Vichy were expunged, but there was enough progress to set the stage for a De Gaulle-Giraud conference...
...England: "A wonderful man." When the Queen paid a visit to the U.S. Air Forces and it began to shower, quiet, grizzled Spaatz wrapped his raincoat around Her Majesty. Another man might have preserved the coat as a relic. Spaatz wears it all the time. It is as torn and stained as his old pancake cap with the ripped-out lining...
...next three. When Belden visited the battlefield after it was all over, he counted 52 German tanks left on the arid, rock-strewn plain between the Matmata Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea. Some were blackened from fire, some were still splotched with green camouflage and black crosses. Turrets were torn off, fronts were blown in. They were casualties of Rommel's most earnest attempt to hit back at the British Eighth Army since the Eighth had chased him out of Egypt...