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Three days later the R.A.F. was back in the saddle with its farthest-ranging daylight raid of the war, a daring assault on Danzig, some 800 miles from Britain. Squadrons of giant four-motored Lancasters swept down on the former Free City in the early evening, while it was still daylight, to dump heavy bomb cargoes on submarine-building yards and other targets. Other squadrons simultaneously attacked Flensburg, another U-boat spawning ground at the Danish-German frontier. Unofficial statements that three bombers missing from the operation constituted a loss of less than 5% was indication that something over...
...Independence Day, it ended in St. Louis: the most ambitious, most spectacular heroes' junket of World War II. For a solid summer month, 15 men of the United Nations fighting forces had shown themselves to the hero-worshipping public. Men of the R.A.F. who had bombed Augsburg in daylight and devastated Rostock at night. Commando-men who had raided Vagsoy and St.-Nazaire in blackface, U.S. flyers who had sunk subs in the Atlantic, had flown bombers on moonless nights over the South Pacific...
Listeners within broadcast range of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts have lately made a surprising discovery: there are often better programs on the air from midnight until 7 a.m. than during the daylight hours. This came about because after Pearl Harbor a number of powerful stations on both coasts were ordered to stay on the air around-the-clock to aid the Fighter Commands in case of air raids...
...intensity of the German assault, with more than 100 planes, suggested that Germany was trying to snip the northern convoy route while round-the-clock daylight and the necessity of squeezing between polar ice drifts and the Norwegian coast make the slow convoys easy targets. To meet this threat, Russia's air force opened an offensive against airfields, repair shops and fuel depots tucked in the folds of conquered Norway, flanking the Arctic route. The Russians said that 40 Nazi planes were destroyed by the first sweep, while Soviet flyers kept on probing deep into fjords and valleys...
...stocky, cocky C. E. Hooper, head of one of radio's two big program surveying concerns (the other: Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting, which gets out the "Crossley" ratings), the results were a personal triumph. He had long maintained that, since daylight saving means little to 70% of Americans except through their radio dials, broadcast schedules ought to stick to standard time...