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...Admiral's communique told the U.S. public what the U.S. press had dutifully refrained from telling: that the Japanese have organized a suicide corps of flyers whose mission is to crash-dive their explosives-laden aircraft into ships; that this Kamikaze (Divine Tempest) Corps has damaged some major U.S. fleet units and sunk some smaller ships...
Practically Yours (Paramount) is the story of a heroic flyer (Fred MacMurray) who outlives his suicide-dive at a Japanese flattop; of an infatuated former officemate (Claudette Colbert) who gets the mistaken impression that he is in love with her; and of their efforts, during his two weeks' leave, to keep the public fooled for the public's own, hero-worshipping sake. Though it recalls the brilliant Hall the Conquering Hero, the picture is in many respects just the sort of smoothly routine, over-contrived comedy that Colbert and MacMurray team so crisply in. Yet its artificial flowers...
...important than the ponton bridges the Americans had slung together downriver. The 1,200-foot bridge no longer carried heavy traffic and was frequently blocked off for repairs. But the Germans were determined to avenge the Ludendorff's betrayal of their cause. In six days they sent 104 dive bombers, singly and in threes, to blast at the bridge. It trembled to a thunderous barrage of ack-ack all around...
Above them rode farther-roving P47 missions to dive-bomb and strafe every moving truck, self-propelled gun or railroad train fof many miles beyond, while higher still was the steady rumble of the great silver Fortresses in the topmost sky, purring distantly on to knock out the rearmost reinforcement areas, supply points and marshaling yards...
...Japs claimed to have known, two days in advance, that the blow was coming. But they were strangely unprepared when the white-starred fighters dropped out of the overcast above each of the main airfields around Tokyo and tore across the strips, strafing scores of enemy planes still aground. Dive bombers screamed down almost vertically; Avengers roared in at a steep glide, each with a 2,000-lb. bomb. The Jap air bases erupted flames and smoke...