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Although they did not announce the new Greek campaign until last week, the British began their operation Sept. 24. Actually it was more an occupation than a full-scale invasion. First, troop carriers dropped parachutists in the northwest corner of the Peloponnesus. Unopposed, they set to work building an airfield, piling up supplies...
...asked neck-craning Russians, as the big Rolls-Royce from the British embassy rushed down Gorki Street -"Who is that?" It was Prime Minister Winston Churchill on his second wartime visit to Moscow. He had suddenly swooped down on the big Moscow airfield with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and high British military men. Five planes brought the 50 Britons. On hand to meet them were Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, Foreign Vice Commissar Ivan Maisky, high Russian military...
...Morotai, where engineers started building an airfield immediately, MacArthur's greatly augmented force of bombers will be within good striking distance of the Netherlands East Indies. But, attractive as the western view seemed, MacArthur's eyes were lifted to the northern horizon where the Philippines lie, 300 miles away. Said he: "They are waiting for me there. It has been a long time...
Three times the Japs counterattacked with their inferior tanks, were thrice thrown back. Peleliu's airfield, best of the five in the Palaus, fell to the determined marines the second day. After three days 5,495 dead Japs were counted. Peleliu was doomed but, like all dug-in Jap positions, it would not come cheap...
Down the night sky onto a Moscow airfield slid the big Russian plane from Cairo. Out stepped Polish Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk and five colleagues. Joseph Stalin's reception committee pounced on them, whisked them off in a big black official car to the official Guest House on Ostrovsky Street. Next morning the Poles dashed to the Soviet Foreign Commissariat, the U.S. and British Embassies. They dropped in at the Lenin Library, the Botanical Gardens, the Park of Culture and Rest. On the Kamenny Bridge Premier Mikolajczyk heard the boom of cannon announcing a Red Army victory. Said...