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...guns) flew in close formation, which caught the Germans in murderous crossfire. The bomber crews claimed 44 German fighters certainly destroyed (six crashed. 23 fell in flames, 14 disintegrated in the air, one was abandoned by a parachuting German) plus 20 or more probables. But the Americans had their heaviest loss to date: six bombers shot down, several more badly shot up. The reward: stick after stick of high-explosive bombs and incendiaries dropped from 20,000 feet on the Romilly airdrome, which with its charred and heaving debris looked to one pilot "like flypaper on a July...
...Forge, N.Y., in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains, a pretty, blonde, 18-year-old, 120-lb. girl hoists into her truck as many as 30 mail sacks a day, drives 108 miles through one of the East's heaviest snow belts, delivering mail over a route her father left for war work. When snow piles higher than the running boards of her truck, Mailwoman Ann Gibbs takes to her skis, sack on her back, to reach isolated camps...
...Office of Civilian Supply. Purpose: To use prospective brides and grooms as guinea pigs, find out what kind of furniture they would like to have in their new homes, so future limitation restrictions can be drawn up to meet as many demands as possible of the nation's heaviest furniture buyers...
GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HEAD-QUARTERS, Australia -- (Late Bulletin) Australian troops have entered Gona, a communique said tonight. Allied forces also occupied Cape Endaiadere, south of Buna. The heaviest fighting of the entire New Guinea campaign was reported raging in the narrow coastal strip where the Japs are pinned with their backs to the sea between Buna and the Gona mission, 15 miles up the coast...
...great port of Genoa with many two-ton bombs. They made the 1,400-mile round trip on two successive nights, left 27 acres of the dock area, large parts of the industrial and business sections in flaming ruins. The Air Ministry termed the attacks "Genoa's heaviest of this...