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While the British bombed Italy by night, American Flying Fortresses kept up their steady schedule of attack on Nazi arsenals in Occupied France. They blasted targets at Brest, the Nazis' Atlantic U-boat nest, where they shot down four Nazi fighters, lost one of their own fighter escort. Next day they struck at the factory-studded area around Lille where they had already done much damage in the raid four weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 19). This week, while other Allied bombers pasted Le Havre, U.S. forces made their first raid on St. Nazaire's big submarine base where...
...taken to a prisoners' camp. "The best thing I can suggest," one colonel said, "is for you to proceed to the Fuka railway station and take the train to Alexandria." They did. In another area German lorry drivers piled their trucks full of Italians and, without escort, drove them up the coast road to British rear bases...
There was a low overcast. On the steel-grey ocean. Allied merchantmen were scattered from horizon to horizon. But some of the escort ships, tossing white water in their haste, had swerved from their courses to concentrate in one area. A Russian freighter, near enough for Seaman Herman to see the sailors on her deck, had already been torpedoed and was sinking. Astern of her another merchantman began to founder in the icy sea. Herman's ship could not wait. Rescue work, what there was time for, was up to the warships...
...Since the boat is not well equipped and inside being narrow, food being scarce and poor you'll feel uncomfortable during the short time on the boat. Those losing patience and disordering the regulations will be heavily punished for the reason of not being able to escort...
...tested model with an unequaled combat record (four-engine air-cooled, turbo-supercharged), the B-17 has indicated by its work in the Pacific, and over Europe as well, that it can carry out high-altitude day-bombing missions under the protection of its own guns and without fighter escort...