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...Allies have perfected a system of defense by aircraft and escort vessels which the Germans have been unable to break. Some of its elements...
Meanwhile the Strategic Air Force under Major General Jimmy Doolittle, also set up by Eisenhower's order of Feb. 18, was ranging farther, throwing its heavy bomber and escort fighters against the island bases of the Mediterranean...
...effective Allied anti-submarine tactics now being used, some are new and secret, others are merely the old tactics of defense brushed up by experience or bolstered with stronger weapons. These include : 1) more escort ships and planes for convoys; 2) reorganized defenses and new defenses set up at strategic shore and island points; 3) a newly developed long-distance aerial patrol; 4) secret anti-submarine devices; 5) the strategic bombing of submarine bases, repair docks and factories...
...heat lay stifling across northeast India, a perky, pint-sized, hickory-tough U.S. Army officer slung a sack of dollar watches over his shoulder and set out on foot through one of the world's wildest jungles. He was armed only with a stout Kentucky hunting knife. His escort was a file of stocky, semicivilized native bearers...
Chief Mate Munte blanched, passed his hand over his face, looked again and fainted with terror. He soon found himself under escort, bobbing over the dark waters towards England. With him were his subordinates, dressed as they had been when roused-in pajamas and, curiously enough, hair nets...