sexta-feira, junho 04, 2004

1944 (vi)

A 3 de Junho, Hitler autoriza o Field Marshal Albert Kesselring a retirar as suas tropas de Roma. No dia seguinte, 4 de Junho, as tropas Americanas, sob o comando do General Mark Clark (15th Army Group) ocupam a cidade.

Clark, a quem Churchill apelidava de "American Eagle" entrará em Roma a 5:
"There were gay crowds in the streets, many of them waving flags, as our infantry marched through the capital. Flowers were stuck in the muzzles of the soldiers’ rifles and of guns on the tanks. Many Romans seemed to be on the verge of hysteria in their enthusiasm for the American troops."
O 15th Army Group deve ter sido o corpo militar mais heterogéneo da guerra, incluindo nacionais americanos, ingleses, canadianos, italianos, franceses, polacos, neo-zelandeses, brasileiros, africanos de várias origens e palestinianos.
# Lançado por PSA às 6:39:00 da tarde
"In North America the black bear was seen by [Samuel] Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."
Darwin, Charles; "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" (On the origin and transitions of organic beings with peculiar habits and structure)