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...desperately fighting submarines with planes. Two out of every three R.A.F. bombers have been fighting the Battle of the Atlantic. Practically every German city under major attack in the last twelve months manufactures some U-boat part. Last week R.A.F. bombers, in their 112th raid on Cologne, made the heaviest attack since May 30, when 5,000 acres and 250 factories were ruined. Last week's raid was timed to flatten Cologne's burgeoning reconstruction, level factories just resuming the production of diesel engines and U-boat batteries. The British dropped 100 two-ton bombs...
SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA-- Flying Fortresses gave the Japanese base of Rabaul one of its heaviest beatings of the war during the night. But the thing that tickled the squadron leader the most was that the Japs were being robbed of sleep...
...official German correspondent broadcast from the Don front: "When I first saw the endless Soviet columns, preceded by the heaviest tanks, an ice-cold hand seemed to grasp my heart. 'Almighty God, give us the strength to withstand this flood,' I prayed." The Nazis' official party journal, Völkischer Beobachter, informed its readers that "the last and highest decisions were at stake...
...Heaviest U.S. plane to date is the Army...
...MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia--Allied troops closed in today on Sanananda, last Japanese stronghold in the Papuan area of New Guinea, as Allied planes subjected enemy bases to some of the heaviest bombings...