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...Mediterranean, Jimmy Doolittle's newly formed Fifteenth U.S. Air Force got away with murder all the way from the Riviera to the Peloponnesus. To stop Doolittle, the Germans would have to drain fighters from northern airfields...
Winter Promise. The new tactics had limitations. The maximum reach of fighter-escorted raids from Britain was probably no more than 400 miles, taking in the Ruhr industrial area but not much more. Even with the creation of the Fifteenth...
...Plan. But the bare references in the communiques revealed the plan of the Fifteenth Army Group.* The essence of the plan was simply that if you take the coasts of an island, you have the island. The air attacks on Sicily's center and its northerly ports of entry, even the ground marches toward railway and other inland centers, supported the battles for the coasts. The U.S. Seventh Army, seizing the southwestern coast, conducted a great backstopping operation, holding down and drawing off sizable enemy forces from the decisive eastern sector. To that canny soldier and conqueror, General Montgomery...
Titular head of AMGOT, more for prestige than for actual administration, was the Commander of the invading Fifteenth Army Group, British General Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander. Functioning chief was an experienced British military administrator, Major General Lord Rennell of Rodd, who established the military government of Madagascar last year. His chief deputy was U.S. Brigadier General Frank J. McSherry, an engineer who has been in the Army since 1917 and has been an executive in various war agencies since 1938. Also in Sicily was New York's ex-Governor, Lieut. Colonel Charles Poletti. A notable absentee: Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia...
...literary short cut for those who wish to read books, but not whole books. Through King Features Syndicate, the Club will release its best-sellers in the form of cartoon strips: 24-30 cartooned installments per novel, with 500 words of text under each strip (about one-fifteenth of the published novel). The first cartoonovel is Anna Segher's The Seventh Cross, story of an escape from a Nazi concentration camp...