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...wave - sometimes 16 waves in quick succession - the Nazis went for the ports. This week they claimed that dive-bombers had sunk 30,000 tons of British transports in Peiraeus. They went for freight trains hauling heavy tanks, heavy trucks with enormous anti aircraft trailers, radio cars, searchlight trailers, troop-carrying busses. They went, carelessly, for hospital units. They went, in blissful ignorance, for lorries carrying the harmless stuff which could only be going to a British force in the midst of a desperate stand: tins of Australian beef, cases of toothpicks, cartons of boot polish...
Since daybreak the Reconnaissance Troop had been pushing north at a steady 30 m.p.h. Two hours behind them the rest of the division-infantry, artillery, engineers and miscellaneous outfits-were pounding along at the standard speed. Here was a chance for a two-hour rest. The division commander, Major General Lloyd R. Fredendall, had ordered the troop to wait for the division north of Abbeville, go on into Fort Benning, Ga., in tight column...
...troop ate lunch-thick sandwiches packed in paper bags by the cook for the midday halt. A few bought canned stuff from the general store at the roadside, walked back to the cars with the shoulder-hitching, spraddle-legged walk that is proper affectation for cavalrymen even when they are motorized. The General's O.D. sedan whirled around the bend and pulled up alongside the store porch. General Fredendall, a short, lean-flanked infantryman, stopped to chat with newsmen. "A good looking outfit," remarked one of the newsmen. The General's reddened cheeks wrinkled in a grin. "Good...
...march had begun two days before. Few minutes after midnight the Reconnaissance Troop had pulled out of the pine-shadowed reservation at Benning, was far south when the rest of the outfit turned out of bed at 3 a.m. and got ready to move. By dawn the whole outfit was rumbling south toward Florida on parallel roads. In approach-to-battle formation, trucks rumbled 100 yards apart; machine gunners stood with their eyes on the skies getting the habit of watching for planes; soldiers of the three infantry regiments rode in trucks (soon to be replaced by 603 troop carriers...
...successor, Dr. Laszlo Bardossy, to step into the shoes of Premier Teleki. Budapest called Premier Bardossy "another tightrope walker"-meaning no offense-but with Germany riding herd in Hungary, there was no more tightrope to walk. Great Britain broke off diplomatic relations this week and prepared to bomb German troop concentrations in Hungary, a process already begun in Rumania and Bulgaria...