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First big Nazi air attack began on Aug. 8 near Dover. Before daybreak a flotilla of Nazi motor torpedo boats darted into a Channel convoy of 20 small coastal ships, sank three. The convoy continued westward down the Channel. About 9 a.m., 50 Junkers dive bombers, with Messerschmitt fighters swarming above them, swooped out of the morning sun. Some of the ships were towing barrage balloons which the Germans had to shoot down before they could dive-bomb. Anti-aircraft fire and squadrons of angry British Spitfires and Hurricanes hurtled up from the British coast. The sky spun crazily with...
...perpetuation of high tariffs. Mr. Penrose was a member of the U. S. Senate from 1897 through 1920, but he never achieved his heart's desire: to be mayor of Philadelphia. His nomination was thwarted by a photograph which showed him leaving a celebrated brothel at daybreak...
Phase One: Groping. On Monday scattered units of the German Fleet accompanying transports were at sea getting into position for landing Tuesday at daybreak...
...Narvik, for example, at daybreak the battle cruiser Renown sighted the German battleship Scharnhorst escorted by the 10,000-ton cruiser Admiral Hipper. "The sea was running very high," First Lord of the Admiralty Churchill later explained. "Gales were blowing furiously, but our battle cruiser opened fire at 18,000 yards and after three minutes the enemy replied. The enemy almost immediately turned away and after nine minutes the Renown observed hits forward of the superstructure of the German...
...Sundays ago Friend Walter Winchell twanged over the radio: "The Federal Bureau of Investigation G-Men swung into action at daybreak and arrested over 30 people in the Federal drive against Miami vice and white slavery. The higher-ups who will be named eventually will shock the State of Florida...