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...razor blade is tacked down with a wire taped to it and going to one side of the coil and on to the aerial. The other side of the coil goes to the ground and to one side of the headset. From the other side of the headset a wire goes to the safety pin, which is driven into some wood at one end so the pin may be turned. Then the free end of the pin is moved across the unground part of the Marlin blade, and in that way you can find your station. Reception is very good...
British Intelligence and reconnaissance had pried out the Nazis' secret long agor and for five months before invasion Allied air fleets had peppered the launching installations in a tremendous aerial offensive. The total effort represented a considerable diversion of Allied air power that might otherwise have been directed against German industry and communications. Last week the air commanders threw everything in the book at the launching platforms-and still the robots came over...
This week, after a thoroughgoing aerial bombardment, U.S. troops under Douglas MacArthur's command landed on tiny Noemfoor Island, 60 miles west of Biak off the north "New Guinea coast. They seized Karmiri airfield, went to work mopping up. On Biak, MacArthur's men already controlled an airfield only 880 miles from the Philippines. Noemfoor's field is 80 miles closer...
From the deck of a ship named the John E. Ward, standing off the English coast, Correspondent Gene Currivan of the New York Times saw 28 of the aerial torpedoes winging toward England. Twenty-seven were of the sort which made their disagreeable debut last fortnight (TIME, June...
...Hayataka-class* carrier sunk; two tankers sunk; a destroyer sunk; another Hayataka-class carrier "severely damaged and left burning furiously"; a Zuikaku-class carrier hit by three 1,000-lb. bombs; a light Zuiho-class carrier hit by two aerial torpedoes; another light carrier perforated by seven 500-pounders; a Kongo-class battleship, three cruisers, two destroyers and three tankers damaged. Of the few Jap planes remaining to defend their ships 26 had been shot down...