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...this war signalized the stoppage of the Mediterranean short cut. The British have only tried to put one large convoy through since last June, and that was the one in which the light cruiser Southampton was sunk and the aircraft carrier Illustrious was given a dreadful pasting by Axis dive-bombers. The effect of this was not only to put an added strain on British merchant shipping by requiring it to use the longer Cape route, but to force Britain to send many of her ships, including destroyers, to the Mediterranean where they are not useful in the Battle...
Then the flares began to float down-long graceful chain flares, star flares, flaming onions, and Molotov chandeliers, which ripple down in long ribbons of fire. From all directions the planes began to dive-bomb, lower than usual, and more than usual. This, the citizenry suddenly realized, was a return visit for the big fire raid the R.A.F. had bestowed on Berlin's Unter den Linden the week before; this would...
...wave after wave - sometimes 16 waves in quick succession - the Nazis went for the ports. This week they claimed that dive-bombers had sunk 30,000 tons of British transports in Peiraeus. They went for freight trains hauling heavy tanks, heavy trucks with enormous anti aircraft trailers, radio cars, searchlight trailers, troop-carrying busses. They went, carelessly, for hospital units. They went, in blissful ignorance, for lorries carrying the harmless stuff which could only be going to a British force in the midst of a desperate stand: tins of Australian beef, cases of toothpicks, cartons of boot polish...
...time is now 8:45 p.m. The warning has just gone and the guns are going. It sounds as though the whole German Air Force is over our house. Oh, I do hope they don't drop any bombs! But they are diving like they always do when they drop bombs. I wish you were here with me. Every time they dive I go all sick inside. Here they come again. I'm afraid it's our night tonight. To make things ten times worse the wind is howling something awful...
...aunties are knitting. Mums is just sitting still. Dad is smoking and I am writing to you. Oh, you would laugh if you could see us all sitting by the inside wall, ready to make a dive under the table if things get too hot. If you don't mind, dear, I think I will stop for a bit as-My Lord, they have dropped something not far away, the house shook-my hand is getting tired. I am going to read your letter and see if it will give me a bit of pluck...