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...Churchill's bomber and two others carrying 14 British and six American military and diplomatic bigshots droned over Moscow, a full escort of fighters swarmed around them. At the airport Churchill stood at attention for God Save the King, The Star-Spangled Banner and The Internationale...
...sweat about the weather. Through a veil of haze, stars twinkle only dimly. It rains and we find shelter in a bamboo alert shack. Towheaded Captain Charles Sawyer, who is to lead our fighter escort, walks around with a haunted look. For seven months, over Burma, Siam and Indo-China, he fought in the old A.V.G.; then he joined the Army when most of his buddies went home. Three weeks ago he got lost in a storm, crashed his plane in the mountains near Tibet, escaped three firing squads of hill tribesmen, walked back into China proper...
...Battle Opens. Navy patrol planes picked up the first enemy column west of Midway on June 3. This was the landing force: cruisers, transports, cargo ships, many escort vessels. Far to the north a U.S. carrier force ranged. But it would be a full day before it could get within range...
Though Moscow spoke of the convoy's safe arrival in port, Berlin stepped up its claims by week's end, reporting that every one of the 38 supply ships had been sunk, only five escort vessels left afloat. Whatever the convoy's actual fate, Germany was making its strongest bid to smash the Arctic supply route...
Well Done. Next morning, when a special bus with a State police escort came to take the merchant seamen away, first-aiders embraced them, townspeople waved, cheered them on their way. Then there was more work to do. Foot-weary village women returned to the hotel, swept, mopped, dusted, turned it back to the owner in the early afternoon, pin-clean and good...