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...peace few war scars had healed. And if anyone wanted to see what Western Europe had a good chance of looking like after a year or so of total war, Spain was the place to see it. A few miles from the Puerta del Sol, Madrid's hub, lie the desolate ruins of suburbs where fighting raged for more than two years. The $50,000,000 University City is a pile of rubble, and in West Park, where trenches still remain, only 33 trees are left standing. In Barcelona and Bilbao, Spain's first and second seaports...
This was the lesson of the Summa Sector. With a prolonged rain of as many as 300,000 heavy shells daily, the Russian artillery, standing hub to hub, tilted enough forts of the Mannerheim Line to make possible a tank-&-infantry break through. Finns in the forts were jarred but safe until their own guns became useless...
Around three sides of Karelia's crumbling capital Russian field artillery stood hub to hub, and under the torrent of shells they threw, the Red Army last week battered its way into Viipuri. Craftily the Finns fought their retreating battle, leaving small rear-guard detachments to hold up the advance while their main force fell back in good order. A ruined town makes the best of all fortifications, and as the Russians entered the outskirts of Viipuri, Finnish machine guns spat tellingly from the gaping windows of the all-but-demolished houses. The invaders had to occupy Viipuri block...
Finally, with the force of an exploding bomb, the work of the bug was given to the world by the "Harvard Crimson". The newspaper offices of the "Hub" rocked with the force of the explosion, and the people of Boston learned about...
...drives the three-bladed prop through a shaft. Best thing about this is that it makes Airacobra's air-splitting nose thin and wartless, still leaves room up front for Airacobra's most deadly fang: a 37-millimeter (1½ |inch) cannon which fires through the propeller hub. Alongside its cannon, biggest carried by any single-engined pursuit ship, are two .30-calibre and two .50-calibre (½inch) machine guns...