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...hour, his flaming words and dauntless courage had heartened his country to stand alone against Hitler at the crest of his Blitzkrieg power. As one of the organizers of victory, Churchill had been magnificent. Now in the last weeks of 1944, he was facing-with his usual truculence-the heaviest criticism of his World War II career; his critics charged him with responsibility for the civil war in Greece and for selling out Poland to Russia...
...Paris by Christmas." Heaviest German thrust was delivered in the heart of the Ardennes, east of Malmédy, where they overran the U.S. forward positions entirely, advanced five miles into Belgium...
...into action against the island's two operational airfields went 108 Liberators (both Army and Navy), each carrying two tons of bombs. Covering them were 30 Lightning fighters. And below them, adding bombardment to bombing, were cruisers and destroyers under Rear Admiral Allan E. Smith. It was the heaviest air strike in the history of the Pacific war, and marked the first time that B-29s had teamed with other forces. The bombing was through overcast, but with some 1,300 tons of steel and explosive rained upon its installations, concentrated into eight square miles, Sulphur Island earned...
...toughness and recuperative power under the endless air scourge of Allied planes from Britain and Italy. They took a loss of over 700 fighters in November, but their dispersed and hidden assembly plants were more than able to replace it. In October the Reich had shuddered under the second heaviest bomb tonnage of the war,* but its oil production had crept up (according to Allied intelligence) from 23% to 30% of 1943 capacity...
...Heaviest was November, with 114,700 tons...