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...expedient for rescuing Germany from defeat, V-1 was too little and too late. But as a weapon of war, crude but improvable, it made its mark. The Allied war planners could fabricate enormous quantities of flying bombs for the final knockout of Japan, launch them against the heart of the Empire from carriers...
Marshall and Eisenhower still had two-thirds of October in which to try for a quick knockout-or. for a paralyzing blow which could be exploited even in the fogs and mud of November. As a rule, October in northern Europe has a fair amount of clear and sunny weather. In October 1918 the Allies enjoyed good weather for their final campaigns against the Kaiser's Germany. When the sun came out last week, Allied air power delivered the heaviest blows of the whole war against strategic targets, dropping 30,000 tons of bombs in three thunderous days...
...armies in Europe-still slugged forward in the heaviest part of the job. Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' U.S. First Army pounded unremittingly at the crouching enemy, in a tremendous burst of infighting against the Germans' main forces in the West Wall, trying for a knockout before winter...
...four places. That meant further gasoline restriction. As people queued up to use Mexico City's crippled bus service (there were already block-long queues for kerosene, charcoal, corn), nervous politicos held their breath, wondered if the storm had dealt the country's groggy economic system a knockout punch...
Announced by General Eisenhower was a new kind of command: an airborne army of close to 250,000 men. Presumably it would be used in the knockout blow against the Germans-who had first proved the devastating effects of air assault...