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Last week Japanese Zero fighters roared over the graves at Broome. Machine guns and aircraft cannon peppered the town and its airdrome, while 650 miles around the curve of the coast, at Wyndham, the Zeros struck again. At the oft-hit port of Darwin, they completed a pattern of things to come: Darwin, Wyndham, Broome are places to be invaded. With them in hand, the Japs would command Australia's northern coast, the wild interior desert which lies between the upper coast and southern Australia...
Everything was right. The moon was bright, but ghostly and tricky with mist. Swarms of British attack planes thundered down on the night's target, peppered & salted it with bomb, cannon, machine gun. In the milky darkness half a mile away, big Whitley bombers dropped clusters of parachute troops, their faces and even their teeth blackened by burnt cork...
...Hitler is exterminating the German identity as well as attempting to kill off believers in opposing ways of life," Viereck maintained. He added that Hitler makes those opposing his ambitions his cannon targets, while those who follow him become his cannon fodder...
...Japs had learned much, or nothing, in a decade in China, about the treatment of conquered people. The citizens of Manila prepared grimly to endure. They listened to the defiant rumble of MacArthur's cannon, echoing across the Bay. Their spirits quickened. Over the dead city went a whispered defiance: "MacArthur will have dinner in a Manila hotel before the end of the month...
Places which it would probably be best to avoid now are the Dartmouth Region and Cannon Mountain, both in New Hampshire. Only nine inches of snow was reported for the Dartmouth Region with the temperature at 18 degrees, while at Cannon Mountain there is plenty of snow, but it is almost entirely frozen granular...