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...sides of the glider, checking parachutes, barely got out in time. He lit running as the big 15-man glider, suddenly an amazingly skittish, lightfooted creature, lifted off the runway. To a glider novice the take-off was startling; we were airborne and climbing on the rope while the heavier tow plane was still soaring down the runway, picking up speed for its own takeoff. We climbed rapidly to 700 feet, circled to get into formation...
...Africa form "a most powerful and finely tempered weapon." He then referred to "the more numerous and powerful forces-British, Canadian and American-which have formed and are forming in the United Kingdom." In other words, the weapon for attack on southern Europe already exists; a mightier weapon for heavier assault on the Continent from Britain is still in the making...
There was a parade two miles long. Showers of rose petals fell on Jinnah's mat of grey hair. Police guards on the roof tops saw to it that nothing heavier than rose petals was dropped...
When he lies low, the Italian bases he is supposed to protect are open to heavier & heavier bombing. The Luftwaffe in the Mediterranean is in a closing trap...
...damage to the disaster point which Sir Arthur is shooting at. But he and General Eaker do not count on straight arithmetic; they count more on precise planning, based in turn on incredibly detailed study and knowledge of the German industrial base, and upon the cumulative effects of heavier & heavier bombings...