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...Pacific frontier. Simultaneously with the Marshalls attack bombers struck at Wake 750 miles to the north and on the edge of the Jap's mid-Pacific system. Navy bombers had struck twice at Paramushiro in the Kuril Islands. In New Guinea, U.S. and Australian troops were closing a trap around one Jap force while bombers at tacked the coastal base of Madang. U.S. troops on New Britain had widened their beachhead and Douglas MacArthur's planes steadily attacked the Admiralty Islands, through which Japan fed the axial base at Rabaul. From new bases in the northern Solomons...
Failure and Achievement. Thus at its eleventh volume Men of Good Will is a monumental failure. Like the Maginot Line itself, it seemed flawless on the blueprints. Like that triumph of engineering, it is full of trap doors and secret passages and it has room in it for an army which, however, might be more useful in the field. Readers may study it with something of the same interest with which the German General Staff and Foreign Office studied the archives of the French Intelligence, Finance Ministry and Foreign Office when they captured Paris. But few will read...
Partisans, Five. At the farm of Antonio ("Tony, they call me in the United States") the trap had been laid. Two German paratroopers had stolen Tony's chickens for Christmas. They would be back for Tony's pig for New Year's. Tony, his son and their friends waited. From ambush they fired an Italian rifle and an Italian machine gun. They tossed the bodies into a quickly dug grave and scrambled up a steep path to Gessapolina. There they had the protection of British patrols...
There were no other doctors and no medicaments. For nine days, while the Partisans slipped through the mountains and out of the trap, Olga staggered after them. Vladimir brought her berries to eat and grass and occasionally raw horse meat...
...crashed right through the front door, nearly killed themselves and their mother. who was coming up the steps. She made them stay indoors all day. The family had a gymnasium, fitted up for the boys over the stable, hired an instructor to teach them gymnastics. The little Hewitts cut trap doors through the floor of their gymnasium to make a secret hideout. When the police called, as they often did, Mrs. Hewitt used to direct them to the gymnasium, knowing that the cops would never find the boys. They never...