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...operational flights. Some go out alone in Hurricanes, some even take bombers out at night. Some women have flown 1,000 hours. "One friend of mine, Vera Lomako," said Grizodubova, "who has shot down one Nazi plane, was flying a month before the birth of her daughter and soon afterward she shot down another plane. ... I know girls so quiet and apparently timid that they blush when spoken to, yet they pilot bombers over Ger many without a qualm...
Last week bombers from Jap bases in China raided the airdromes at Lishui and Chuhsien. Afterward the Japanese said" that U.S. technicians had lengthened the runways, otherwise improved Lishui and Chuhsien in preparation for the arrival of U.S. bombers...
...brought Adolf Hitler's demands and threats, insisted that the Riom trials be stopped.* Diplomatic circles also heard that Laval appealed to Pétain's friendship by telling him, truly or falsely, that an arch-collaborationist coup d'état was being planned in Paris. Afterward Laval reminded the press that it was he who had instigated French collaboration with Germany and announced that his talks with Pétain had ended. These remarks may have meant that Laval had been warded off by the old Marshal, who is still stalling for time and events...
Once, putting to sea at dusk, they were spotted by a German priest; soon afterward, signal fires bloomed on the hills around them. Several times they fled from islands when reports were relayed that a Jap destroyer was approaching. They gave it the slip, only to be followed by another enemy ship. Quick dodges through small islands saved them. Their luck held as they scooted past Jap bombing bases. Darkness saved them from an auxiliary cruiser...
...Last Sunday 50,000 Britons jammed Trafalgar Square to hear the Daily Mirror's Cassandra and eleven others plead for a second front in 1942. Afterward they contributed $10,000 to a second-front propaganda fund...