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...their target because its capture would seal off Mindanao and the other southern and central Philippine Islands, furnish bases for U.S. planes to cut Japan's supply lines to the East Indies storehouses. Then they had picked for the main assault the spot on Leyte where their armor and fire power could be used most advantageously: the upper half of the eastern shore line which leads down into the fertile Leyte Valley...
...south of England. Simultaneously airborne troops invaded the Midlands. The first landing, in Kent and Sussex on England's southeastern tip. sucked London's defenders down to battle. Then came the second attack, to the west, in the Portland and Weymouth area of Dorset. German armor poured quickly through the inviting flats up to the rolling Salisbury Plain and the Cotswolds, then swerved southeastward to take London from the rear. In the final stages the last British remnants in North Wales were cleaned up completing the occupation of England...
Hundreds of farmers stayed away from market - and El Salvador is a big tropical farm : a farmers' strike paralyzes the country. Opinion grew that Colonel Aguirre would soon lose his fight against the passive people. But Colonel Osmin Aguirre y Salinas rattled his Lend-Lease armor, declared that Salvadorans who joined the passive resistance movement would be shot...
Head-On for Königsberg. Last week there was little news of the attacks from the north and the south. But by Berlin's own admission Chernyakhovsky's armor, smashing head-on toward Insterburg and Königsberg. the capital, was making progress. With what Berlin called fighting "at white heat" the attack from the east swept over the border town of Eydtkau...
Under Fire. Byron Nelson is 4-F (hemophilia); his 165 lbs. look almost gaunt on his 6-ft. frame; his stomach is nervous and jumpy. There are chinks in his temperamental armor...