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At Le Havre, transatlantic cable messages are pouring through the Commercial Cable Co.'s operating room, deep in a dark, dank cellar. Divers had patched the broken cable link with the U.S., had removed the mines the Germans planted over the cable bed. But the company could not move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Europe's Recovery | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

The nation's 6,000,000 golfers were knee-deep in rationing and reclamation. At Chicago's Exmpor Country Club, Pro Ed Stupple allowed members one reprocessed ball for each two rounds of play. At Los Angeles' Wilshire Country Club, Pro Olin Dutra doled out two balls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golf at Any Price | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

It was 7 a.m. in Tokyo when the made-in-U.S. whirlwind struck. Most of the regimented millions in Japanese war factories were already at their benches or assembly lines. But the Hellcats, Hell-divers and Avengers (perhaps also Corsairs and Dauntlesses) had other targets this day: the great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Mitscher Shampoo | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

Mitscher's Avengers. It was time for the first strike. Mitscher sent off powerful forces of Hellcats, Avengers and Hell-divers against both Jap fleets. In the central force, they damaged a battleship and a cruiser, both of which may have sunk. A light cruiser was torpedoed; it capsized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Victory in Three Parts | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

The Big Haul. Hidden under the edge of a typhoon, the fleet bored in. Halsey sent only part of his forces on the deepest mission-to the Ryukyus, 270 miles south of Japan. Hellcats, Avengers and Hell-divers from Mitscher's carriers thundered across the islands in four heavy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Halsey in the Empire | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

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