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...German Army's supplies to Norway. It is a funnel that must be plugged if Norway should be the site of a frontal assault. Bremen, too, was the home of commerce-raiding, long-range Condor planes and the Focke-Wulf aircraft plant, where some of Hitler's deadliest fighter planes were built. Aerial photographs showed that Focke-Wulf machine and pressing shops had sustained a heavy bomb hit, destroying a quarter of the buildings and extensively damaging the rest. The British believed that Focke-Wulf fighter output had suffered a crippling cut, enough to repay them...
...Germans accused the onetime people of Lidice of routine subversive activities, such as hiding arms and hoarding food. But the deadliest charge against them was that they aided and sheltered the killers of the Gestapo's hangman, Reinhard Heydrich. Besides the slaughter in Lidice, the Germans by week's end had shot 400 Czechs in reprisal for Heydrich's death. They had offered an "appropriate" reward to the informant who would identify Heydrich's executioners. They gave the informant until Thursday of this week to speak his piece; after that, anyone found in possession...
...first five months of 1942, shipyards delivered ten times as many PC boats (deadliest enemies of the sub) as they had delivered...
Lewisite, another blister gas, was developed toward the close of World War I in the U.S., is now a favorite of the Japs. Deadliest gas of World War I was phosgene: a couple of good whiffs mean a painful and almost certain death. The U.S. has no part in any treaty outlawing gas warfare...
...ranging far to sea from bases and carriers, had seen the battle building up. Three weeks ago the Jap had begun massing a task force in the Marshalls, 1,700 miles north of New Guinea, and his force there set Chester Nimitz and Douglas MacArthur to work at the deadliest guessing game they had ever sat in. Where would the Jap strike...