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Axis interest in Malta suddenly intensified when the aircraft carrier Illustrious limped into the island's tight but deep harbor, Valetta, after the Battle of the Sicilian channel three weeks ago (TIME, Jan. 27). Day after day German dive bombers returned. At first they just attacked the crippled Illustrious. Then they began going after port installations and defenses in general. The British, hunting down the Stuka hive at Catania, Sicily, raided it many times to try to smoke the attackers...
Main Event. At 12:30 the real show began. Warning was given of a squadron of dive bombers-lean, bat-winged Junkers 87B, the first to appear against the British in the Mediterranean-streaking in from the north at 18,000 feet. In an instant the Illustrious was achurn. Over the loudspeaker system brassed the marine bugler's warning, the boatswain's call: "All hands to action stations." Gun crews jumped to their pompoms. Pilots raced for their planes. Down the deck roared the first flight of Fairey Fulmar fighters, bouncing up into the sky. Behind them...
Meanwhile more Stukas and Italian picchiatelli dive bombers had attacked the rest of the convoy. The destroyer Gallant was crippled by an Italian torpedo, but limped into port (the Italians said she foundered). The cruiser Southampton was so badly fired by Nazi bombs that the British were finally forced to sink her. Said Military Expert Hanson Baldwin: "The Southampton's sinking marks a red-letter day in the history of warfare. Some day, when sufficient forces have been concentrated against it and sufficient hits are made, a battleship, too, will be sunk from...
...remainder of the program is a well-assorted collection of war propaganda featuring Christmas in London ad dive-bombing at the Pensacola Naval Flying School. To relieve that grim note a style show is included which displays, as the announcer succinctly puts it, "the latest dresses with bags to match...
...mechanization already moves from camp to camp- three trucks loaded with diagrams, models, textbooks, sound films. The Army says that although cabled technical advice from England is limited, many improvements have already been made on English mechanization. Among them: A Bren-type gun carrier whose crew is protected against dive bombers' bullets; infantry carriers that can move "right up to the battle"; a "garage trailer" carrying 90% of a modern service station's equipment...