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...Navy calls it the greatest sea fighter in the world. The Japs respect it above all other planes. Wherever the Hellcats have roved in the skies above the Pacific, they have conquered. At Guam, Ensign W. B. ("Spider") Webb nosed his Hellcat into a cluster of Jap dive bombers, joined them in their landing circle, leisurely shot down six. In the first attack on the Bonin Islands in June, Lieut. L. G. ("Barney") Barnard shot down two Jap planes in 25 seconds, sent three more spinning out of the air within 25 minutes...
South of Caen, a Canadian unit wading through wheat fields fought its way into a cluster of apple orchards...
...Superfortresses droned over the cluster of factories in their first daylight operation, flames from the bombed plants billowed up to 6,000 feet, smoke to 26,000. But the B-29s were above these, above the ack-ack, and above the effective fighting ceiling of Jap Zeroes. The first high-level operation of the kind for which B-29s were designed (as distinct from medium-altitude night bombing such as the two previous attacks on Yawata and Sasebo) was a success. Only two planes were lost. Total for three raids...
...political life, had the galleries with him. After his stiff-necked, forthright seconding speech for Franklin Roosevelt he got the most honest ovation of the convention, three minutes of real cheering. Later that same day, after the President's voice had boomed, too loud, through the cluster of amplifiers, the name of Henry Wallace set the galleries afire. From every corner of the Stadium, packed with PACsters, came the chant: "We want Wallace!" At this point the Wallace nomination might have been roared through. Balding Chairman Sam Jackson, try as he might, could not stop the chanting...
...regimental command post at the very top of the Chinese positions. From the loopholes you could see out over the field of battle. The nearest hill recaptured was a wooded one and Chinese troops were already sheltered there. But three Jap hills beyond were the highest of the cluster and on these the Japs had concentrated their guns and men. Two white farmhouses in the slopes of the hills held invisible Japs, and Chinese guns were trying to reach them unsuccessfully. Mortars of the Chinese belched from behind us, but nothing happened...