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...brief, is that the most destructive counterblows can be delivered by very heavy, long-range bombers, land-based. This thesis was propounded by Air Force General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz and vehemently seconded by Stuart Symington, who as a civilian producer of bomber gun turrets had visited London during the blitz and had never forgotten what he had seen there. Ground-force generals agreed with Spaatz...
...honeymoon, reported for duty in the Operations Section of the Admiralty, using a side door to dodge the mobs of curious women thronging the front entrance. Next day he drove his bride over to examine Clarence House, their 32-room London house, where workmen were still clearing up blitz damage. Until Clarence House and Windlesham Moor, their country house, are ready for them, Elizabeth and Philip are staying on with the family at Buckingham Palace. Late in the week, they ducked the annual Christmas Party for the Palace servants, to dine quietly with the Duchess of Kent. For a dancing...
...dingy brick wall of No. 9 Grosvenor Square, where London workmen are still repairing blitz damage, there is an inconspicuous blackened plaque: "In this house lived John Adams, first American Minister to Great Britain, May 1785-March 1788, afterwards second President of the United States...
...Blame. Morison makes no bones about fixing the blame: ". . . the United States Navy was woefully unprepared, materially and mentally, for the U-boat blitz on the Atlantic Coast . . . this unpreparedness was largely the Navy's own fault." While ships were going to the bottom, the Army & Navy wrangled for 18 months over control of antisub aircraft, never reached a solution. The reason? Says Morison bluntly: "Conflicting personalities and service ambitions." Meanwhile four Navy destroyer schools were teaching four different methods of coping with U-boats and "the Navy Department laid such stress on the security of communications that they...
Honolulu marked her re-emergence as a pleasant and peaceful subtropical crossroads last week. For the first time since the "blitz day" attack on Pearl Harbor, citizens celebrated Aloha Week, the Hawaiian equivalent of "pioneer days" as observed in the continental...