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...London has witnessed so many strange sights since the war, silvery elephants of balloons tethered in its skies, incongruous lifebelts draped around monstrous water tanks, fantastic vistas of destruction, decorative weeds running wild amid ancient stones, that the fact that ice-cream cones are now being devoured in broad daylight in the West End will hardly cause it to raise an eyebrow...
Main reason for the switch in tactics (from high-level, daylight bombing to medium-level, night bombing): it is more economical to burn out a sprawling area of small industry and homecraft war production than to bomb it out with high explosives. The fire-bomb technique is not infallible: less than two square miles of Nagoya burned in the first assault, and the job had to be done again a week later-with better results. Daylight bombing with big demolition bombs is still the prescribed dose for heavy industry, big arsenals, dockyards and the like. In future, the Japs (already...
...Planes Came. With daylight came U.S. planes - 1,300 in direct support, others chopping at Nazi rear communications. Jülich fell to the Ninth Army - all but a 16th-Century citadel surrounded by a moat 20 feet deep and a wall 14 feet thick and 45 feet high. Next day the Ninth's 29th Division assaulted the cita del with 755 and flamethrowers. When the Yanks finally got in, they found a few German dead. The other defenders had run out, during the night, through a tunnel that led to the woods...
Luzon at Last. It was Tuesday, Jan. 9, when Barbey's landing craft nosed in to the beach extending south from San Fabian. Assault troops streamed ashore in full daylight, direct from LCIs, with no opposition save enemy mortar fire. Wilkinson's group, following Barbey's into the gulf and staking out the southernmost beach west to Lingayen, met no enemy fire, but heavy surf breaking far out complicated the task of landing heavy equipment...
...Last month pilots reported that they had seen mysterious floating silvery balls, apparently another "secret weapon," in daylight flights over Germany...