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...northeast came the bombers. They circled the position leisurely, then bombed. The ridge ahead seemed to be a mass of flame and smoke and the ground where I was lying half a mile away jumped with each explosion. There were seven Junkers 88s with two Messerschmitts as escort. When they had gone the ridge seemed bare, but soon you could see men crawling on it and hear the snap of Bren guns replying to the German fire. . . . There was another bombing attack and two more strafes before dark...
Sept. 15-From 50 to 75 bombers based in Norway attacked at high and low levels. Below low-hanging clouds ack-ack took care of the raiders. Above, fighters from the carrier did the job, spitting fire into the ranks of Junkers-88s and Heinkels...
...because they were so few. Censors permitted the first description of them. The KV (for Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov) is a massive 46-tonner, with a 76-mm. main gun and thick armor which turns shells from enemy 75s and is often proof against fire from the Germans' famed 88s. The Russians say that it is almost fireproof, a decided improvement over German, British and U.S. tanks...
...Army tacticians are trying out new ways to fight tanks with new weapons: World War II's tank destroyers-self-propelled, forward-pointing guns of .75 caliber and up. Army men, giving the devil his due, admit that the guns are inspired by Germany's self-propelled 88s, used successfully by the Germans in Poland and ever since...
Stukas, Junkers-88s and Messerschmitts flumped into the sea like dead ducks, but the defenders were too busy and too outnumbered to follow cripples. In four days they counted 22 German planes certainly destroyed, estimated that some 50 in all had never got back to Sicily. Berlin claimed hits on docks and harbor equipment, fuel dumps, one cruiser. London admitted casualties and "some damage...