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Again Russian hamlets set afire by alien hands glowed in the bluish dusk, and misshapen figures dangled from the gallows. Again the thunder of Red artillery pursued the fleeing men through day & night, and white-painted Stormoviks hopped over the gaunt trees to bomb and strafe...
Almost every day U.S. Army Liberators bombed the Marshalls; once they paid two visits between dawn and dusk. The big bombers pummeled Wot je's drome, tore up Taroa's runways, buildings and anchorage, damaged Jaluit's shore defenses, all secretly installed since the Japs took over this mandate from the unsuspecting League of Nations...
...fighters. The Luftwaffe, once able to bomb Russia's remote bases, industrial centers, airfields at will, now has difficulty protecting its hard-pressed armies. In the path of the Wehrmacht's retreat across the Ukraine, Moscow said last week, Red aircraft "darken the skies from dawn to dusk, discharging thousands of tons of explosives which pulverize everything beneath them...
...Other planes were coming in at the LCI (Landing Craft, Infantry). Its 20-mm. machine guns opened up and the first burst hit the belly of a plane which blew up above the Who, Me? and went on into the sea. Two others crashed; the burning planes lit the dusk...
Without pleasure, Tammany Leader Michael J. Kennedy arrived at his headquarters early on election evening. He and Tammany's Secretary Bert Stand chatted idly in the lonely office, occasionally stared outside at the foggy dusk. They were alone until 7:30; then a half dozen district leaders, grim as the weather, dropped in to make a faint pass at gaiety...