Show ill exclusive war story ray brock war a r correspondent es dont 4 years year aral in the he bulk balkans w gor for the h N V Y times and practically en route rouse at this moment to the european europe theater elijo for international news service spellbound and so aiom of us with this breathless story W I 1 olk asked 1 ed him to jot it down dear walter heres here the story precisely as bea tolstoi gave it to me the other night I 1 think its one 0 of f the great hitherto unwritten chapters in the war scene shep hoards beards terrace cairo time late afternoon november 18 15 1 1941 ken downs then an ace war correspondent for foIn antl tl news service hes now a it col on terry allens aliens staff in europe was finishing a scotch and the last five pages of for whom the bell tolls toils geoffrey keyes interrupted him geoffrey a lieuten ant colonel at the age of 24 son of admiral roger keyes had bad ducked a desk job in england to come out to egypt join the british desert commandos and raid the german and italian rear dynamiting airdromes aird romes blowing bridges playing general hell with the enemy etc but now ken downs told geoffrey keyes to it 0 go we way y ken was absorbed in the fictional last few minutes of robert jordans life in the bell the anfor gettable last few minutes when jordan with a smashed thigh props himself against a tree and levels his tommy gun on an approaching column of fascist cavalry keyes was off with capt colln colin campbell campbel and his commandos comman os or on the raid to kill rommel the raid that missed rommel because the afrika korps general was in rome on a birthday party but it was one of the most daring operations of the war and won keyes his victoria cross posthumously keyes landed his commandos two hundred miles behind the german lines beached ills his landing craft by night near sidi rafa they hid two days and nights in a wadi gully trekked twenty miles on D night and snaked up to the afrika korps GHQ they attacked with grenades torn tom maguns and machine pistols keyes leading keyes killed the first senry try kicked down the outer door and led his raiders in spraying the corridor with tommy gun and pistol startled frightened german staff officers poured from their billets keyes men blasted them down the tha sirens went a general alarm being sounded the germans got to their arms began egan to fight back keyes small force got smaller but geoffrey still leading took seventeen men through u gh the last defenses in the inner stockade to brommels Rom mels own quarters brommels Rom mels staff aide got keyes a machine pistol fusillade which c h almost tore keyes right leg off keyes K eyes fell in the doorway colln colin campbell behind him dragged keyes back from the threshold and hurled burled two grenades re nades inside then he be sprayed the he room with his tommy gun gua had ha d rommel been there hed have ha ve caught it it campbell and a sergeant dragged sergeant keyes back to th the outer stockade firing as they tell fell back then campbell was hit bit get out keyes ordered take him out leave me here lere they had reached the door of the ae outer st stockade oc kade give me that tommy gun keyes took the sub machine gun and propped himself in toe the door well the rest of 0 it came from rom downs re report portas as he got it from rom the sergeant and from colin campbell who wrote from a german prison camp they dragged campbell to a tree nearby his its wound was pretty bad aliey abey gave hint him morphine and he began aegan to go under but ho he could still till see keyes in the first gray streaks of daylight propped in the doorway borway and blasting awa away Y at the germans armans in the stockade the sergeant ran back to keyes but coot ley frey refused aid he simply demanded more clips tor for his tommy gun the sergeant got them listen keyes fired a burst not more than two or three of you will get away some of you he fired again a long choppy burst that drove the germans back to cover some of you must get back bac k to report he fired again and rammed home a fresh clip tell them yes sirl snap snapped lied the sergeant get word to ken downs finished keyes tell himi it if yo you U will that it happened this way goodby the sergeant saluted and ran zigzagging alg zagging tor for a wadi and safety campbell began to pass out As he went under he could see keyes firing reloading firing bremos of a Mid nighter when an ad agency told henry ford th that t ford tommy dorsey was the next ford hour star mr big replied chos he the matter with earl godwin its a girl for the everett at drs hosp pops the crime doctor bob musel the new york newspaperman now in england has written the song hit ot of london the homecoming waltz the mystery murder of a diplomats wife in that chica chicago 90 hotel is the exact plot so far of a Universal film starring F tone |