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Since 1939 Graebner has been chief of the TIME and LIFE London Bureauקargest maintained by any U.S. publisher in England. He ran the office all through the Battle of Britain—the toughest six months of news coverage any TIME man has ever known. He still can't figure out why he wasn't killed when a loaded Junkers bomber crashed almost on his doorstep; the terrific explosion blew his housekeeper from one room right through the door into another, bashed in the whole house. After that Graebner slept in the office-beside his desk on nights when...
Offense requires power and weapons in quantities which the nation, for all its strength, has not yet got. There will have to be many more incidents such as that which took place in the Battle of Midway, when squadrons of the new Grumman Avengers—swift, long-ranged, deadly—the first batch to come from the factories, went out, fresh from the assembly lines, to finish off the enemy. For in this second phase the U.S. must take the initiative, must drive the invaders back over their bloody roads of conquest...
...remaining manpower," then a reference to advancing Nazi forces, finally the outright statement from Moscow that the Germans had the advantage in numbers of men, tanks, planes. Thus Berlin, was probably telling the truth in a communique claiming the recapture of a, bridgehead between the Donets River and Kharkov—the one tangible gain which the Russians held after their May offensive waned...
...details of two U.S. victories—the Battle of the Coral Sea, May 4 to 8, and the Battle of Midway, June 3 to 7 threw much light on the current balance of gain & loss in the Pacific. Tales of U.S. skill, heroism and success also provided the first clear look at naval warfare, 1942 style...
...Washington the Smithsonian Institution is shipping 57,200 insects to a secret cache. Why all the fuss over a tattered bug on a rusty pin? Or a frowsy bird skin? A pickled fish? Because these are the type specimens—the original catches from which the species was first scientifically described and defined. Like the platinum-iridium bar in the International Bureau of Weights and Measures at Sèvres on which the meter is engraved, each specimen is the standard against which other members of the species and new varieties are measured...