Word: lull
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...After a lull during vile weather, the air war against Germany picked up in full force as 1,500 U.S. planes attacked Berlin and Brunswick, forcing the Luftwaffe fighter command into a savage battle which cost 125 Nazi fighters against 26 U.S. bombers and 19 fighters...
...this lull fooled no one, especially the Japanese. Premier Hideki Tojo last week praised the Japanese for producing "undreamed-of" quantities of ships and airplanes, then warned them that the British and Americans were becoming impatient "to end' the war in a short time." Said he: "The time to decide the destiny of our empire has come...
German prisoners have told their captors that practically nothing is moving south from Florence by rail. Prisoners' statements and intelligence reports indicate that Kesselring's 20 divisions in Italy are getting only 170 tons of supplies per day per division. While this is plenty during a lull, the Germans would need at least 200 tons per day per division if an all-out Allied blow forced them to rise up and fight. Still needed: the all-out Allied push, a seeming impossibility now, when reserves are few on the Italian front.* But if what Uncle...
...Berlin was full of apprehension ("a lull before a storm"). The Red command, it said, was massing troops from the Black Sea to the Pripet Marshes for a new all-out push, coordinated with the Allied invasion of the west...
After a year's end lull, U.S. airmen in the Central Pacific resumed their daily bombardment of the Japs' Marshall Islands. The Army's Seventh Air Force sent heavy, medium and dive bombers over the runways and harbors of Mili. Jaluit, Wotje, Maloelap, Kwajalein (see cut). Navy Secretary Frank Knox all but forecast imminent invasion of the Marshalls: he said the bombings were "softening up" the islands, "putting the enemy on the defensive throughout that region...