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This year had been foremost in nearly all American crewmen's minds because of the projected Olympics, but when the war came this reason was gone, only to be revived again with the possibility of an East-West race in lieu of the trials...
...Possible East-West Race...
From its seats on the Eastern sideline, watching the smashing performance of the German juggernauts, J. Stalin's Red Army was at last unleashed at 4 a.m., Sunday, September 17. Led by its air pilots and big tanks, it rattled into Poland along all main east-west highways on a 500-mile front, from the Dzwina River (above Polotsk) on the north to the Dniester (Rumanian border) on the south. From past reports of the Russian mobilization, some observers guessed that 2,000,000 men were on the move. At nightfall, the first war communique from Moscow listed...
...Westwall section 100 miles east-west behind the Saar Valley, along which the Allies were feeling for a soft spot, is one of the newest. Behind it valleys run into the Rhine from the North and East. But no military observer expected any immediate smashing of the Siegfried Stellung, 1939 style...
...were by pointing to the spot on their map: Miscou Island, off the coast of New Brunswick, 700 miles short of New York, 3,900 miles from Moscow. Thus, last week after 23 hours and 36 minutes in the air, ended what had come close to being the longest east-west transatlantic flight. At Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., where a crowd of 5,000 waited in a drizzling rain, a Russian Embassy attachè announced the news when it came in by telegraph. Twelve little girls with garlands of flowers for the transatlantic heroes laid them down and went...