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...ahead will be hard and bloody; Major General George V. Strong, Assistant Chief of Military Intelligence, report that German air strength was greater than in 1939, that continued bombings had not broken German morale, and that Hitler had almost three times as many field combat divisions as in the autumn of 1939. Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson keynoted...
...prepared to place large armies in Italy and to deploy a wide, active fighting front against the enemy . . . and to maintain the offensive . . . with increasing weight and vigor, if need be throughout the autumn and winter and beyond...
...Congress came back in the crispness of early autumn, after two months' rest with the people back home...
...Halifaxes and Stirlings and use only speedy Lancasters. The Lancasters did not tarry. Launching a new, concentrated kind of attack, they loosed 1,120 tons in a brief and terrible 20 minutes. Within the week 69 British planes fell under the Luftwaffe's frantic defense. But faster than autumn leaves, the bombs continued to fall on a city marked for revenge...
London's News Chronicle felt a "sense of big events to come." Britons remembered Winston Churchill's prophecy of last June: "Very probably there will be heavy fighting in the Mediterranean and elsewhere before the leaves of autumn fall." From within and without Festung Europa, men scanned the pattern...