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...said the British communiqué: "Ninety-one German aircraft are known to have been destroyed and about twice that number have probably been destroyed or damaged"-from one-third to one-half of the estimated German operational strength in Western Europe. British losses in the air: 98 planes, of which the pilots of 30 were saved...
...American losses were announced in the communiqué which described the opening of the battle, and it was far too early in this second phase of the Battle for the Solomons for anyone to tell how well the U.S. forces were doing. But the Navy did say that the Army and Navy units backing up the U.S. Marines in the Solomons had been expecting the Jap counterattack. Americans who read the news could only hope that the commanders who foresaw the attack had also been able to bring up enough ships and planes to beat it off. The Japs could...
...hunch, left the main U.S. forces and flew west from Midway to hunt the enemy. They found him: an overwhelming force of three carriers screened by a fleet of cruisers and destroyers. There was no time to wait for fighter protection. Squadron No. 8 said the formal Navy communiqué later, "proceeded to attack at once without protection or assistance of any kind...
...glamour girls OPA addressed a communiqué: "Such long-established practices as sending up clouds of powder during camouflage operations, scooping up huge handfuls of cold cream, spraying a cloud of perfume to walk through must go." There won't be enough cosmetics to go around unless make-up is applied with a sparing hand...
...office of Tribune Managing Editor James Loy Maloney the night (June 6) when the Navy's first communiqué on the Battle of Midway came in. Editor Maloney is said to have humphed that the Navy was trying to balloon a skirmish into a big battle, proposed to put the story on an inside page. Reporter Johnston protested that it was one of the biggest naval battles in history. He laid before Editor Maloney a list of Japanese ships, gave him a description of the Japanese battle strategy. So Maloney put the story on page...