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...weight and intensity of aerial at tacks on the harbors, airfields, artillery positions and railways of Sicily and Sardinia steadily increased (see p. 55). Italian and German resistance, particularly in the air, steadily decreased. But softening by air is not conquest. At the weekend, Americans struck at Italy's chief weapon of Mediterranean defense, its navy, with an air attack on three battleships at Spezia. Results: uncertain...
Arkansas-born John Thach entered Annapolis (in 1923) with the fixed conviction that a handful of sea water was blue, emerged four years later with a burning urge to fly, which the Navy speedily gratified. Once bewinged, he became a crack aerial marksman...
...Franco's Axis-timed request that aerial bombardment should be "humanized," Laborite Lord Winster publicly responded: "General Franco has been kind enough to suggest that we should be thinking about peace and ought to stop bombing, which is repugnant to his gentle soul. We remember, of course, how his humanity was stirred when Germany and Italy bombed Guernica and other Spanish cities. ... It is kind of General Franco to spare time from his preoccupation as a ruler of the most backward, derelict, poverty-stricken, starving, illiterate, reactionary country in Europe to tell us how to manage our affairs. This...
...secret, others are merely the old tactics of defense brushed up by experience or bolstered with stronger weapons. These include : 1) more escort ships and planes for convoys; 2) reorganized defenses and new defenses set up at strategic shore and island points; 3) a newly developed long-distance aerial patrol; 4) secret anti-submarine devices; 5) the strategic bombing of submarine bases, repair docks and factories...
...drive in Central China (TIME, May 31). Scouring the triangle between Hankow and the Yangtze gorges of marauding guerrillas, they secured bases on the northern shores of Tungting Lake in such places as Mitushih, Hwajung and Yuayung, then drove west across the flatlands under a withering curtain of aerial strafing...