Word: mainlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From June 1, the U.S. and British cascaded 7,000,000 lb. of bombs on the island. On the 18th day of attack more bombs were dropped than had been loosed on Tunisia, Sicily, Sardinia and the Italian mainland during the entire month of April. On that day, while Allied fighters sent at least 37 Axis planes screaming into the sea, Allied bomber traffic was so heavy that pilots had to circle about, trying to keep out of each other's way while waiting their turn to sight their targets...
...remark before Congress in May, that the idea of bombing Germany into submission was "worth trying." Soberer heads recognized this as a victory of air power, but a victory won under laboratory conditions. The island fell because it was possible to isolate it completely from supporting bases on the mainland. This was the decisive factor, not the sheer weight of bombs. Malta in three years of war had taken many times the weight of bombs dropped on the Italian outposts; it still stood because its supply lines were never severed...
Until this week few knew that Enterprise played an important part in the Doolittle raid on Tokyo. She met the carrier Hornet in the Western Pacific, and provided air cover for the task force's final approach to the Japanese mainland. Hornet had her flight deck cluttered with Doolittle's big B-25 bombers, and would have been unable to get her fighter planes up to fend off a sudden enemy air attack...
Armadas of Wellingtons and Marauders, Fortresses and Mitchells flared out from North Africa and the Middle East to continue these attacks against island airfields, harbor installations and gun emplacements, to strike at railway yards, airfields and ports on the Italian mainland. The damage to defense bases was great ; the damage to aircraft greater. In four days Allied airmen knocked out 305 Axis planes. Allied plane losses...
...Pearl Harbor still lap the misshapen, rusted hulks of three great warships. They are all that remains of the heart-sickening wreckage of Dec. 7, 1941, when the U.S. suffered the worst naval defeat in its history. Sixteen other vessels hit that day have been scrapped, sent to the mainland for repair, or returned to the fleet...