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Near Barnegat Inlet on the New Jersey coast, duck hunters lay in fogbound blinds and listened to the stodgy thrum of two blimps plowing through the overcast. Then they heard a ripping crash. Through the fog, wreckage dripped down into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: In the Fog | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

...wife Ann and three children (Marcia, 13; Mary Ann, ii; Richard, 6) he built on Maryland's Eastern Shore "one of the most complete family plants in the world," making bread from his own wheat, wine from his own grapes. Cows, hens and the waters of an inlet from Chesapeake Bay supply the Aliens with milk, eggs, fish and crabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mighty Installment | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

Scouting Jap activities at Wewak, where a new enemy base is being built to compensate for the loss of Buna and Gona, the Wahoo had made a find. Anchored in a narrow inlet of Mushu Island was a Japanese destroyer. The Wahoo's first torpedoes, fired at long range, missed. The destroyer weighed anchor, bore down on the submarine. Once more the Wahoo launched a torpedo. This time the shot went home, blasted the destroyer in half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Clean Sweep | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

...scented with the smell of warm bread, which pops and crackles invitingly in its great wire racks. Near the entrance looms a massive mixer, easily twice the height of the average man. Flour and other ingredients are sifted into a great mixing tub from a high funnel-shaped inlet and then kneaded by long-armed paddles...

Author: By Colin F. N. irving, | Title: University Food System Feeds 5700 Daily | 1/6/1943 | See Source »

...basis of a large Italian colony and a claim 1,500 years old), has wanted it to control the Mediterranean. Only 88 miles separate Tunisia from Sicily. A "second Gibraltar," it also has, in Bizerte, one of the world's great harbors. Behind an outside harbor through an inlet is a saltwater lake capable of holding the fleets of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF AFRICA: Carthage Again | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

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