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...Animals. In Antwerp, joyous burghers rounded up remaining Germans and collaborationists, stuck them in empty cages at the zoo-officers in the lion house, Belgian Fascists in the tiger pens, wailing women in the wildcat cages. The day before, a troop of flustered "Mice"-grey-clad German women auxiliaries-had piled their belongings on a truck, which then drove off. The truck was driven by members of Belgium's underground "White Brigade," would never reach the Reich...
Aircraft Repair and Storage Depots: Severe damage to two of the largest depots-Méaulte and Romilly-sur-Seine; heavy damage to repair shops at Antwerp, Brussels, Le Bourget, Meulan-les-Mureaux, Nantes; considerable damage to the Gnôme-et-Rhône plant at Le Mans; light damage to Paris' Hispano-Suiza plant, destruction to Paris' Caudron Renault shop; Villacoublay was marked "most severe...
...offensive-defensive in Berlin against talk freely about it to neutral correspondents and plenty is permitted to "leak" across Axis borders. Axis troops and small ships have been moved ostentatiously from Baltic to North Sea coasts. Hundreds of high-speed boats, some driven by airscrews, are reported concentrated in Antwerp and Rotterdam. Holland is said to be full of SS troops. U-boats are being concentrated in Danish ports...
From the "Eight Ball II" on an Antwerp sweep, Army Air Forces Captain Clark Gable got his first Fortress-eye look at Europe, manned no guns but "learned a lot." He also nearly froze his hands, having nullified the protection of electrically heated gloves by wearing a leather pair underneath. Captain Gable is the gunnery officer of a new Fortress group expected to start operational flights soon...
...news in Berlin was bad. The Axis was losing North Africa. Italy, always uncertain, was growing more uncertain as the threat of invasion increased. Göring's Luftwaffe had failed to twist the neck of the thunderbird that nested in England and clawed at Kiel, Antwerp, Cologne, Paris, Essen, Berlin. Some 90,000 people had been, removed from industrial Essen's shattered, scattered homes. War labor was at a premium; war widows were ordered into the factories...