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...full fury of that attack could not yet be measured. There was no time for the statistics of destruction. But there were bits and pieces that gave a faint glimmer of what the Germans faced this week. In two days, fighters of the U.S. Eighth Air Force (ordinarily bombers' escorts) destroyed nearly 1,000 trucks and vehicles. The Ninth Air Force fighters ran up an even larger score-nearly 1,800 vehicles. The big strategic bombers-Fortresses and Liberators, night-flying Lancasters and Halifaxes, every aircraft that could tote a bomb-raked the lines of retreat that reached back...
...eastern seaboard there was a Turkish-bath humidity as well. In New York City the temperature reached 96° (a hooded vulture from Africa keeled over in a dead faint at the Bronx Zoo). In Baltimore and Boston it climbed to 99, in Rochester, N.Y., to 98; it was 98 in Chicago, 101 in Kansas City, 102 in Oklahoma City; 117 in Memphis, Tex. and in Blythe, Calif.; 108 at Yuma, Ariz, and Abilene, Tex., 109 at Tucson...
...night, while star shells, flares, bomb flashes flicker across the Guam sky, faint barks can be heard from distant outposts. The dogs are standing watch with sentries, ready to give warning if the Japs try to work into the Marines' lines...
...fickle crowd was on its feet, cheering every Truman gain, as the last, faint chants of "We want Wallace" came from the upper tiers. Ohio added 23 to the Truman score. Then West Virginia, whose Governor Matt Neely had held firm for Wallace, broke down. It added 13 votes for Truman, enough to put him over...
...moved down the ramp, looking even taller than his 6 ft. 4 in., even thinner than his pictures. As his foot touched the ground, the 17-gun salute to a general roared into the hazy heat (four guns less than the salute for the head of a state). The faint est smile passed across the grey, impassive face of Charles de Gaulle...