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Maison-Blanche fell without a fight; U.S. paratroops seized Blida airdrome. U.S troops marched quickly inland to cut the Algiers-Oran railway. U.S. and British fighters and light bombers flew in to the captured airdromes from carriers; other bombers arrived, probably from Gibraltar...
Then the U.S. land and air strategy in Morocco became clear: to advance by land up an excellent highway toward Casablanca, at the same time to fan still farther inland toward the Moroccan army's chief base at Marrakech, 100 miles from the sea in the high Atlas Mountains. At Marrakech, if anywhere, army units loyal to Vichy would probably make their stand. But with Marrakech in hand, the U.S. troops would also have the southern terminus of Morocco's railway system and command of a rail route to Casablanca itself...
...Madagascar signed an armistice. Governor General Armand L. Annet had not been able to offer the British much war, but at the bidding of Pierre Laval he had done the next best thing. By forcing the British to take each port in turn and to march to each inland city, then by stalling on armistice terms, Annet had kept some British land and sea forces from fighting Germans and Japanese as long as he possibly could...
...doused duckhunting yet. Shotgun shells weren't short or rationed (despite WPB freezing of all 12-gauge shells for aerial-gunnery training, war-plant protection and riot squads). Not all coastal marshes and inland waters were restricted. And most comforting of all, the Government is counting on the sportsman's annual 54,000,000-lb. bag of waterfowl and small game to help fill the U.S. dinner plate...
Last summer the Club was preparing to fly with the C.A.P., when a government order prohibiting ordinary civilian flying within 40 miles of the coast forced them to send their planes inland. Had the Club owned their own flying craft, they would probably have been able to register it with the civilian patrol organization. However, the aircraft company from which they rented their ships was obliged to call all their planes out of the vital areas...