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...time for Sicily, where he met General Eisenhower's staff and the second general sent out by Marshal Badoglio. Presumably in Palermo, the parleys entered their final phase. In that city, on Aug. 29, American ack-ack gunners received startling orders. A Savoia-Marchetti bomber headed for the airfield was not to be fired on. The big plane slid down, and two Italian officers stepped out. On the 30th it took off again, escorted by three U.S. Lightnings. On the 31st it was back again and the same officers deplaned...
Next day medium bombers hit Boulogne. Other formations, including Fortresses, bombed and strafed every airfield from which German planes could have taken off to repel invaders. Swarms of fighters, on escort and on independent sweeps, took and held absolute command of the sky above the coastland. Behind the coastal area, near Paris, Fortresses and escorting Thunderbolt fighters staged a great raid with a double purpose: to bomb an aircraft-engine works and to engage the only sizable force of German fighters which appeared over France that...
...from chimney pots, sacks of potatoes, haystacks, fresh loaves of bread-even from crying infants. But the mines did not delay the Red Army long, and the Germans had to abandon many of their supply dumps. Food and ammunition by the trainload fell into Russian hands. On a single airfield in the south the Reds captured 19 undamaged planes. Near Bryansk, they seized land mines stacked in Teutonically neat mounds...
...likely that U.S. soldiers will be thrown into an amphibious assault on Vila. Soft, mucky, much-bombed Vila Airfield is of no use to anyone. The Japs there, hemmed in and immobilized, may be left to starve to death. Said a Navy officer: "It may be necessary for us eventually to go in and bury their dead...
...have flown missions; in fact, he rarely went out on routine jobs. "But when the mission was going to be tough," said the pilots, "we could be sure Cheli would be out there with us." On Aug. 18 Cheli went out with them to bomb and strafe the Dagua airfield...