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Hitler had capitalized on his temporary advantage to rush more troops to the aid of his Tunisian commander, Major General Walther Nehring. Some of them were transported by huge Ju-528, which Allied planes chased and harassed. Many of them poured in from ships that made the short dash from Sicily. The British Admiralty announced that British subs sank nine of these vessels: tankers and cargo carriers laden with tanks, guns, materiel. But Axis ships continued to land at Bizerte at the rate of two a day. Estimates were that Nehring's force now numbered between...
...Germany's new Heinkel (H-177) is her first four-motored bomber designed as such (the Ju-Sg and Focke-Wulf Kurier were militarized transports). Its most distinctive feature: it has only two propellers, with two liquid-cooled (1,200-h.p.) engines geared to each propeller. The 177 is larger than the Flying Fortress, is almost as fast (about 300 m.p.h.). The Henschel-129, a twin-engined attack plane, is the Germans' answer to the Russian Stormovik. The 129 has a speed of 275 m.p.h., can carry 770 Ib. of bombs, carries a 37-mm. cannon...
Divorced. Charles Spencer Chaplin, 53; by Paulette Goddard, 31; in Juárez, Mexico; after six years of marriage, more than six years of public speculation on whether they were or were not married. She was his third wife, he her second husband...
Just where the Fortresses landed in northern Australia was a secret last week. Fourteen of General MacArthur's staff proceeded forthwith to Melbourne, but he stayed behind with his family to rest for a day. The sea and air voyage had worn Mrs. MacArthur, her son and Ah Ju...
...Ju blinked, ducked in terror when photographers' flashlights blazed in her face. With imperial MacArthurian self-possession, Arthur marched with his mother through the generals and the crowd to a car where 6-ft. 3-in. Sergeant Donald Broe, of Waterloo, Ia., proudly waited to drive the General behind the four-starred flag on the hood. But the General stayed behind, followed later in a car with the two-starred flag of a major general. In the crowd, General MacArthur spotted Press Officer Lloyd Lehrbas, who covered Washington affairs for the Associated Press when MacArthur was Chief of Staff...