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...military purposes, Belgium, The Netherlands and the Channel coast of France are walls of the inner fortress. On that coast last week, not a Nazi gun spoke when a British troop convoy hove within sight and range. Airmen sweeping northwestern France got the impression that both ground and aerial defenses were astoundingly weak; London heard that the Germans had withdrawn 13 of their 34 divisions from western France and the Lowlands. Either the Nazis had laid a masterful trap, or the western wall had become, since Dieppe, a gigantic shell. Reported a TIME correspondent in London...
...salvo struck the water on one side and the second on another. We all took a long breath waiting for the third to hit us squarely but by that time the cruiser which had been firing at us was disabled. Several times we received scares when 1,000 pound aerial bombs and torpedoes just missed our ship...
...policy quickly began to pay off. News of the Navy's unexpected aerial and sea attack on Japan's Marcus Island base was announced in Washington while the attack was still under way. Then, at week's end, came further results. It was announced in Washington that, to blot out the prevalent "armchair war" attitude, Americans at home will get to see heretofore suppressed pictures showing the horrible side of war-the deprivation, danger and suffering the U.S. fighting man endures. One of the first such photos to be released was one to make Americans catch their...
...thinking which caused them to attack battleships of the line at Pearl Harbor instead of continuing on to the West Coast and crippling the big airplane plants in California. If they had done that, our own Navy would have steamed out . . . and would have run into the kind of aerial defense which sank the Prince of Wales and Repulse...
...bombs across the Atlantic and fly home without stop. The bomber's skin will have numerous 'blisters,' which in reality will be multiple-gun power turrets controllable from sighting stations. Sights that compensate for almost every possible error encountered in firing on a fast-moving aerial target will control the guns-a sight as revolutionary as our present bomb sight...