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	24.11.2009, 09:54
Контрольная № 6 THE CRUSADERS (by S. Heym) 1. That night the weather broke. The fog lifted. The stars and the plush-black, fresh sky appeared like new skin after a disease. The air became crisp and clear and dry, the slush turned into ice, and the snow became powdery. 2. And in the morning the sun rose with a brilliance rare in winter; there wasn’t a feather of a cloud. Over the ground torn by battle rose an unblemished, light blue orb, magnificent in its height and transparence. 3. To the men it was more than a sign. It was real. For up there, coming from all directions, flying on different levels, were the bombers; even higher, surpassing them, the tiny silvery specks of the fighters; and close to the ground hovered the Cubs, seeing the earth as a neat arrangement of squares and lines and circles and dots. 4. A new and different roar added itself to the old sounds of the battle, something more frightening in its intensity than anything heard until now: the seed of bombs falling from the sky in pre-arranged patterns, sticks following each other like darts, arriving in close sequence, screaming, tearing up the ground. 5. The great protective cover under which the Germans had operated was torn from them. Every move they made was seen the moment it was started; every tank, every truck, yes, every man that stirred, was like a pin on a map, and the tracks on the snow were like arrows pointing to the target. 6. The Army, which had been fighting blind, had regained its eyes and seeing, it could reduce the enemy to his proper proportions. It saw that he depended on a few roads which could be blocked at strategic junctions. It saw that he had not been able to consolidate his positions, that he had spread out like a thin-fingered hand, each finger vulnerable. 7. In the crisp, sober light of the day, the specter that had risen in the fog lost its terror: it was, after all, the same German Army that had been beaten since Normandy, with the same weaknesses as always – lack of motorized equipment, lack of airforce, lack of gasoline and oil. As always, their tanks had to be dug in when the fuel gave out. Converted into artillery pieces, they were like sitting ducks to the American fighter-bombers. The hunt was on – at first against columns and squadrons, then against single vehicles, and in the end against single men running and scurrying for their lives. The armored spearheads which the Germans had driven up to the Meuse found themselves cut off: the trek back began. And while they were harrowed from the air, and harrowed from the flanks by the quick stabs of American light armor, the base of the German bulge was whittled down by Farrish and Patton hammering up from the south, by Hodges forming an anvil in the north. When the 101st Airborne at Bastogne was relieved, the battle was won.
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