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Nazi reconnaissance planes discovered a flotilla of powerful British destroyers which may have been steaming toward the rumored naval concentration off Tripoli. Swarms of Heinkel & Junkers dive-bombers swooped down on the destroyers in midafternoon, sank the 1,935-ton Lively on their first attack, were driven off by British Beaufighters on their second, sank the 1,695-ton Kipling on a third go and so severely damaged her sister ship the Jackal that the British sank her next day. The signs of increasing Axis activity might simply be provoked by an Allied success in the war of nerves...
...natives that a Hitler could raise in Asia would release a battalion of German riflemen for one of the mechanical arms. . . ." Until the days of mechanized armies, says Kiralfy, the problem of invading Asia was almost as difficult for modern armies as for Alexander the Great. But "the dive-bomber and the tank have removed many of the hardships and perils which formerly confronted an aggressor." And the aggressor that is now whipsawing his way through Burma is the most populous of the Axis nations. Expert Kir-alfy is alarmed by visions of Japanese forces striking at Alaska and Canada...
With her rudder jammed hard over, the Marblehead circled like a headless hen, smoke seething fore & aft. Her decks slithered with oil, water, patches of blood. Once more the ship was hit. Sky guns from the cruiser Houston winged a bomber which tried to suicide-dive the Marblehead, crashed into the water only 30 feet away...
...Bethpage, Long Island, a trim new plane raced down the runway, lifted, climbed up, up, up almost beyond hearing, then peeled off into a grinding power-dive. Fresh off the assembly line, another Grumman Avenger, the Navy's new, deadly torpedo plane, was in the torturing rigors of its shakedown flight...
...find their objectives-a huge Arado Flugzeugwerke assembly plant for Messerschmitts and a Heinkel torpedo-plane plant-the R.A.F. was forced to dive through the shimmering light curtain, headlong into terrific anti-aircraft fire...