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...thousand such bombers, which would cost no more than about ten first-line modern battleships, in the hands of an enemy would put the United States as fully at its mercy as though there was nothing but a ditch between us, if we had no adequate Air Force. And naturally the reverse is true...
Last week Pilot Billy bagged his seventh Jap. After one sortie, when Sandy landed his P-40 on the airdrome near Rangoon, a Jap fighter with machine guns spitting came wavering toward him. Sandy jumped into a ditch and the Jap crashed. When U.S. pilots reached his plane they found that the Jap had been wounded, had evidently been intent on a last victory in his crazy dive...
These deeds and the others unreported, shone like bright stars against the black shadow of ultimate defeat that still hung over MacArthur's gallant army. Had it not been for the debacle at Pearl Harbor he might by now have been relieved. Now it was a last-ditch fight...
Heretofore Edmonds' novels have rambled through the past of his native upstate New York, chiefly along the towpaths of the Erie Canal. He put the canal and its folkways into Rome Haul, Erie Water, Chad Hanna. He deserted the ditch only long enough to write his most successful novel, Drums Along the Mohawk. New York State's No. 1 regional historical novelist, he has an ability to bathe his restorations in a bright, bucolic, pre-New York Central freshness...
...German officers (two colonels, a major, one of undesignated rank). Since Dec. 1 the Germans had found it necessary to shoot 100 of their soldiers for mutiny. It would take a long time for disaffection to weaken the mighty German Army, but the spirit was spreading. In No. 12 ditch of the cemetery of Ivry-sur-Seine, the bodies of 50 German soldier-suicides lay rotting in the open...