One hundred and fifty GIs and German workers labored 24 hours a day to get them unloaded. Give me an ETA on EC 84 . . . That's flour coming in on EC 72 . . . Ease her down . . . Oh yeah, overhead . . .
Wind is now north northwest . . .
The next stupid Charlie 47 has nothing on his manifest . . . With these voices in the battle of Berlin mingled many others, in various accents, all saying essentially what the GIs were saying in their own way. The man who, along with his GIs, had to do most of the staying was a general from Georgia with sad brown eyes, courtly manners and a steel-trap will. He was General Lucius DuBignon Clay, Commander of U.S. Forces in Europe and U.S. Military Governor in Germany, and he had already made his voice heard. I have firmly made up my mind that I will not be bluffed . . .