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...driving a tiny dent into Japan's Pacific wall, now had to find the men, the ships and the planes to breach the wall...
...World War II's new third dimension, the air, the Iowa and ships like her are vulnerable. A heavy bomb can only dent her deck, but a lucky hit down a funnel into the magazine might do for her. High-altitude precision bombing could be crippling if delivered in a pattern so that the Iowa's speed and maneuverability couldn't save her. More damaging would be close-in, suicidal plane attack-and even with her announced 20-gun, 5-inch secondary battery, sixteen 1.1-inch anti-aircraft guns and unannounced small-caliber armament, the Iowa alone...
Retreat to Winter. Without a second front to divert German strength, the Red Army was trying the next best distraction: counterattacking farther north in an effort to relieve southern pressure. The Germans acknowledged that the Russian blows had been severe, but they failed to dent the Nazi lines or to create a significant diversion. The Red Army had not yet demonstrated any capacity for effective offensive action against the full weight of the German Army...
...destroy the hostile armored forces, or to cripple them so badly that they must flee. That was what Rommel had done to the British before Tobruk, and the resulting vacuum had made easy his drive into Egypt. As yet neither British guns, tanks nor air force had made a dent on Rommel's Army...
China Will Need. But the military supply situation is desperate. Lend-Lease stuff from the U.S. is piled up in India. Planes flying over the Himalayas, at heights where ice forms on the wings and pilots need oxygen tanks, cannot carry big enough pay loads to dent the Indian piles. Moreover, planes are often grounded and are far too few. If there is anything more than a political gesture behind the sending of U.S. transports (TIME, June 22), they will have to appear in far greater quantities than at present...