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...later an "urgent" warning. We first knew the show was on when an anti-aircraft battery near the Kawasaki factory district opened up on one of the two Tokyo raiders. A second plane flew within half a mile of our camp and came within an inch of destruction. A Jap battery of eight guns found the exact range at which the B-25 was flying and let go at it. The first shots were a little ahead of the plane, and the second volley would have caught it square if the pilot had not nosed down within a few feet...
They show how the Japs, striking early in the morning-hoping to surprise tiny Midway as they had surprised Pearl Harbor-bombed oil tanks (see cut) and hangars. They show the flag-draped bodies of U.S. soldiers and marines killed by Jap bombs...
...there are also magnificent glimpses of Flying Fortresses roaring off the sandy airports to attack the oncoming fleet, of Navy fighter planes high in the air over fiercely burning Jap vessels. And there is ample evidence of crashed and burning Jap planes on the island...
...peasant origin, solemn, brooding Georgy Zhukov joined the Red Army in 1915. His military career was unpublicized abroad until 1939, when he won recognition for effective use of tanks against the Jap on the Khalka River. In quick succession he became commander of the Kiev military district (1940), Chief of Staff of the Red Army (1941) then commander of the Moscow Front in October 1941, the hour of Moscow's greatest peril...
...China was to help sell the U.S. Government on the idea of the now-legendary A.V.G.-the Flying Tigers. He began touting the scheme in 1939, but it was two years before Washington adopted the idea. But with typical Pawley luck he still got under the wire: when the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor there were 100 Jap-shooting U.S. flyers in China and the A.V.G. was on the road to fame...