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Windup to this hair-raising blitz was an attack by eleven speedy A20 light bombers, especially designed for smearing a target of wide area. They whipped over at 4,500 feet, dribbled 176 100-pounders from their bays. Across the target spouted a deadly line of dirt, metal, smoke; the second pyramid took off and floated into fragments...
...When the Germans started the blitz in London," reported Correspondent Cole, "a bomb went through the roof and hit Mrs. Papafio (of Indian descent) as the family sat in their tiny suburban villa. When Big Papafio went to the rescue, his wife was stiff dead. And what was worse, some gas went into Big Papafio's eyes and made him blind...
...blind father and 13-year-old sister to pack their bag & baggage, got a berth on a West African ship and sailed down to the Gold Coast. Last week blind Papafio went on the miue (Government Station ZOY) to tell his three and a half million countrymen how the blitz was going on in England...
Dark, elegantly tweedy Pianist Harriet Cohen laid aside an ocelot muff, spread her beautiful hands before the microphone. "During the blitz," she asked, "what would we all have done without the hands of women doctors, nurses, masseuses, A.R.P. workers...
...Kennedy was never in London during the blitz. She hovered over her two small daughters, small son and foster daughter at a quiet west coast resort. But the war she describes is the real war of nerves that went on in the minds of all Britons on the home front in "the day when heaven was falling, the hour when earth's foundations fled," and England lay almost defenseless, waiting for Nazi invasion. Mrs. Kennedy felt many things with a visceral vividness that many men must also have felt but would not tell about. She describes them with frank...