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...weeks Axis planes have kept up a concentrated bombing effort on Malta that has no parallel in this war. Operating 24 hours a day, Axis high-level and dive-bombers have raided the island over 150 times since Jan. 1. As many as 17 alarms have occurred in 24 hours...
...powered by a 2,000-h.p. Pratt & Whitney air-cooled engine, has a high speed of more than 400 m.p.h. in level flight, has done an incredible 680 in a dive.* Although it had been widely publicized, before Pearl Harbor, as a definitive U.S. answer to the need of high-altitude fighters, P-47's altitude performance was not mentioned by OEM, therefore could not be mentioned by the press. But OEM did give other details...
...Dive--Won by Pastel (H); second, Phillips (H); third, Poli (B), Score--64.4 points...
...morning the small fry would come bouncing into bedrooms, shouting Merry Christmas and itching to dive at the filled-up stockings, the boxes under the trees. Soon whole families, in bathrobes and dressing gowns, would be engulfed by billows of wrapping paper, the whir of toy trains, the squeals of genuine or counterfeit surprise...
Meanwhile, last week A.P. did not lack for a Grade-A Allen story. With news of his hospitalization arrived his delayed story of a seven-hour battle "off Libya" between Nazi planes and a squadron of British destroyers and cruisers. Machine-gunned by a dive-bomber, his cruiser was repeatedly shaved by big bombs and torpedoes as it twisted in emergency turns and pumped a "hell of fire" at the enemy. The cruiser apparently was finally torpedoed, perhaps by an Axis submarine, and sank. Rescued after 45 minutes in the water, he came through luckily with only painful bruises...