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Then came the onslaught: submarine packs, torpedo boats, dive-bombers, torpedo-carrying planes. Details of the action were not revealed, but hour after hour, for several days, in the air, on the surface, undersea, the melee raged...
Again the same tough routine. Hurl a few score bombs, dive into a whirling Richthofen Circus with 30 Jap Zeros. Home again, grab yourself a plateful of chow. Flop in your bed at ten. And here is the boy again calling you at a quarter to two in the morning...
Almost in the midst of his dive, the Adonis reversed direction and disappeared into the showers, female shrieks subsided, and the atmosphere went back to normal. No one knows the hero's name, and no one knows his class, because he never returned, even in a bathing suit...
...news was distressingly parallel to that from France in 1940. In six weeks the Germans had plunged 300 miles deeper into the country. Tank columns concentrated in Schwerpunke ("thrust points") where enemy lines were weakest, broke through, then mushroomed out behind them. Mechanized infantry rushed through tank-opened gaps. Dive-bombers roared overhead...
Like troop parachuting and dive-bombing-ingeniously adapted to the Nazi war of movement-the glider pickup was distinctly a U.S. development, an outgrowth of a mail pickup service which has been pure routine for three years on the routes of a Wilmington company, All American Aviation...