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Before dawn the big guns around Dover suddenly thundered. Their loads of steel and high explosive arched toward the German-held coast of France, some 20 miles away. German heavy guns growled back in a monstrous duel. It was like a rumbling overture to invasion...
Twenty heavy German shells fell around Dover. A veteran of World War I bore witness to their power...
...endless streams of U.S. and British medium bombers, protected by snarling fighters, whipped across the Channel from rain-soaked English airfields. In one 36-hour period, 4,000 Allied planes dropped their bombloads, came back without a single loss in combat. Some formations took 45 minutes to pass over Dover. Window-jarring explosions swept across the narrow waters. For the first time since the Eighth Air Force and the R.A.F. staged a practice preliminary around Boulonge (TIME, Sept. 20), heavy day and night bombers shifted from the strategic assault on Germany to tactical assault on the invasion coast of France...
Collard had it planned, on paper. There would be a broad-gauge line (he preferred the wider roadbed for safety at high speed) from London to Paris. The underchannel bore would be 24 miles long, between Dover and Calais. Electric locomotives doing 92 m.p.h. would pull trains carrying 508 passengers. The trip would take two hours, 45 minutes. The fare would be ?2 ($8). There would be 22 trains daily. The cost would be ?190 million. Annual gross receipts would be ?35 million; net profit, ?12 million. That would be 6.3% on the investment...
Since Captain Dover's time, sailors have used "cat fever" for any set of achy symptoms that a Navy doctor cannot readily diagnose. (Some Navy doctors still prescribe Dover's powder.) Last week, cat fever turned...