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...Aerial assault, perhaps followed by new amphibious leapfrogs, up the island chains of the Marianas and Bonins toward Japan...
...main body is an iron tube loaded with explosive roughly equivalent to a one-ton aerial bomb. This blows up when the fuel is burned out and the robot hits something. Speed is about 300 m.p.h. ; maximum range, possibly 150 miles...
...Cover) Four days before the Great Invasion the aerial encirclement of Fortress Europe was completed...
...Enemy Standard. German propagandists, hating and fearing Harris and Spaatz, called them the "aerial bandits." But the Germans themselves had established the first bombing standards for World War II. In the celebrated blitz of 1940-41, German planes attacked Britain with an average of 200 tons of bombs a night for about 100 nights. The "measuring stick" raid on Coventry saw about 275 tons fall in seven hours...
...narrow and no place is really remote, Iceland's chief claim to distinction is geographic. Squatting squarely astride the hemisphere dividing line (the 20th degree of west longitude), it is an important base for protection of Europe-bound convoys, in the postwar years will be an important aerial way station between North America and Europe...