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...bright mid-morning sunshine one day last week the Presidential C-54, the Sacred Cow, put down at an airfield several miles from Plymouth. Harry Truman had insisted that his homeward trip from Potsdam include a visit with England's King...
...Barcelona the haggard refugee and his wife boarded the same Luftwaffe plane with the same Luftwaffe pilots who had flown them in. A few hours later they came down on a U.S. Army airfield in Austria. Rumor said that Traitor Laval had vainly offered his German pilots one million francs if they would head for Portugal. U.S. officers promptly turned Laval over to the French, who flew him to Paris...
...picked up some more Pacific real estate last week as troops landed unopposed on Kume Island (20 sq.mi.), 50 miles beyond Okinawa in the East China Sea, only 345 miles short of the China coast. Another airfield might be bulldozed out of Kume's forested hillsides, and Okinawa's left flank would be made more secure against attacking Jap planes. Radio Tokyo reported U.S. minesweepers clearing the way for an invasion of Okino Erabu (15 sq.mi.), 40 miles northeast of Okinawa. This suburban property would give similar protection to Okinawa's right flank...
Thirty-five miles behind the front lines a phantom U.S. force sprang on the town of Tuguegarao and, captured a major Japanese airfield. Next day another force appeared 50 miles behind this force, at the end of the Jap retreat line, to nab the final escape port of Aparri and its airfield...
...Captain Francisco Ponce, buzzed over San Salvador. At dawn Pilot Ponce dived his Lend-Leased North American attack bomber straight at the National Police Barracks, killed six of the defenders with his ten bombs. Wounded by antiaircraft fire, he managed to fly on to the haven of a Guatemalan airfield. There he claimed that he had dropped his bombs in self-defense...