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...Abbot told the Weather BuReau last March that on 175 specified days during 1943 it was likely to rain in Washington, and that rainfall on those days would be 166% of normal. Actual figure at year's end: 158%. He also correctly predicted the three days of heaviest Washington rainfall in January and February this year. Once, consulted by an Army engineer, he predicted that during a three-month period rainfall in the Tennessee Valley would be 84 to 87% of normal...
...days after the landing, MacArthur announced from his headquarters that the initial operation had been a "reconnaissance in force" but that because of its unexpected success it was now "being developed into complete occupation." Reinforcements were rushed to Momote airfield-just in time to stop the Jap's heaviest onslaught. At week's end another communiqué indicated that Momote airfield might be in the bag. Enemy "dead & wounded are estimated at 3.000. . . . We lost 61 killed and 244 wounded." Said General MacArthur: "Our troops are preparing to resume the advance...
...thundering days over Europe, the combined air power of the U.S. and Britain struck a fateful blow at German air power. In the war's heaviest air battle, it inflicted injuries on the enemy's basic sources of aircraft production from which the Luftwaffe may never fully recover...
...within the space of half an hour 2,800 tons of explosives plummeted into the torn city-90 tons a minute. As the armada headed home, smoke from the fires of Germany's capital rose 20,000 feet in the air. It was the war's heaviest raid on bleeding Berlin or anywhere else...
...Anzio beachhead, the German wound up and threw his heaviest blow, an attack by nine divisions to break the Allies, drive them into the sea. British and American troops met him headon. The action was so close that neither side dared to use hand grenades...