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...guess that the Luftwaffe had lost 301 fighters in two daylight air battles over Berlin last week, and it was no guess that when the U.S. bombers came back in force for a third attack within four days, the Luftwaffe planes did not come up to oppose them...
When we taxied out about 8:15 it was broad daylight. We circled up & up over the field until we were above the clouds. While we were getting into formation we could see hundreds of other Forts coming up at other places to make other formations. Berlin...
...Light of the Moon. They fought off frenzied Jap counterattacks through the daylight hours. By night they grimly fought off the animal-like enemy's infiltrating tactics. Wrote Corporal Bill Alcine, Army correspondent...
After a while time ceased to have much meaning; sometimes it was dark, some times daylight. But the fighting never really stopped. One night the Germans, trying to get behind the Americans in town, blundered into one of their own minefields. The doughboys heard explosions, then the screams of the wounded...
...lower stories, then to the basements. Whole squads disappeared beneath collapsing walls. The limits of the barrage froze something approximating a battle line running through the town, with a No-Man's Land sometimes only ten yards wide. Any soldier who stepped into that strip in daylight was a dead...