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...time it was light, fighting was well under way. The German aims were about as simple as an attacker could desire: seize as much as possible of the road along the coastal plane, seize the three main airdromes and all subsidiary flat fields. The main attack was on Malemi Airfield; those to the east were feints...
...Greece blamed the defeat there, now obtained in Crete: there were no defending R.A.F. planes to be seen. And on Wednesday and Thursday, although "Tiny" Freyberg said his men were "fighting with splendid courage," they lost the island's three key points: Candia, Rethymno, Canea (including Malemi Airfield...
Encirclement via Ether. An R.A.F. reconnaissance plane flying as far as Bengasi saw an interesting but sobering sight on Benina airfield, eleven miles from Bengasi: drawn up, wing to wing and nose to tail, were at least 100 Junkers transport planes. Each plane was big enough to carry 25 men. In Greece transports like these had been used to land field artillery and armored cars behind the British lines...
...costs high, labor restless (although the U. S. is spending $40,000,000 for defense in Puerto Rico). One of Muñoz Marin's first tasks was to listen to complaints of 700 workmen about a row with U. S. Marines at their work on a new airfield...
...gawky, Lincolnesque John Gilbert Winant last week lay over water: by Clipper to Lisbon over the Atlantic, from Lisbon by British ferry-plane, passing a Lufthansa Fokker enroute to Switzerland, to Bristol over the Bay of Biscay. As the plane circled to land at the Bristol airfield, a guard of honor ringed the field. For John Winant was going to London to visit the King as Ambassador to the Court of St. James...