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...raid on Wiener-Neustadt climaxed a week of diversified air attacks over Greater Germany. As the nights grew longer the offensive arc expanded steadily. Early in the week British and Canadian heavy bombers gave the twin Rhineland industrial cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen their 57th aerial pounding of the war. On the same night fast Mosquito bombers struck at the Ruhr and the Fighter Command jabbed at airfields and railways in France and the Low Countries...
Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, whose aerial reconnaissance of Rome mightily helped the bombers that came after, returned to Washington, D.C. for temporary duty there...
...high-collared radio men are not so sure. Ad-libbed shows give them the aerial willies. So far, the quickness of mistress of ceremonies Arlene Francis, radio & stage actress (The Doughgirls), has stood them in good stead. One losing serviceman, who won an unanticipated $15 consolation prize, gleefully grabbed the microphone and advised his favorite bartender: "Hello, Clyde, set 'em up down there!" Miss Francis recovered with: "He means Maxwell House Coffee, of course...
...Landing. Patton's ship stood off Gela, a soiled town on a blue bay, the main initial objective of the U.S. troops. Against Gela and its environs had been thrown a great weight of naval shells and aerial bombs. Against Gela, now, were sent crack troops of the Seventh Army: first a shock battalion of Commando-trained Rangers under Lieut. Colonel William O. Darby, who was to do brave things, and Major General Terry de la Mesa Allen's tried-&-proved 1st Division...
Torpedo 8, fruit of NANA Correspondent Ira Wolfert's three-month stay in the South Pacific, is a report of U.S. air fighting in the Solomons. Terse and nerve-tingling, the book communicates the stab-&-run violence of aerial battle with a verbal violence as calculated and vivid as an explosion...