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From Italy and England, Lieut. General "Tooey" Spaatz's heavies blasted hardest at enemy airplane plants, but they also struck heavily at German fortifications on the coast, presumably in the spots where lighter craft had not done the job. Major General Lewis Brereton, boss of the Ninth (tactical) Air...
In the 1850s spiritualism swept the U.S. eastern seaboard like a fog. It seemed, said one flabbergasted convert, "as though the spirit world, having at last hit upon a means of communicating with ours, could not get enough of it." Mediums sprang to fame, set the ether vibrating with spirit...
Jean Burton, who has made eccentrics her specialty (Elisabet Ney, TIME, April 5, 1943; Sir Richard Burton's Wife, TIME, June 23, 1941), has written a lucid, witty biography of the most successful, most enigmatic of these 19th-Century mediums. Daniel Dunglass Home was born in a small Highland...
One-Two Punch. Still another day, and a U.S. air fleet, estimated at 1,600 to 2,000 bombers and fighter escorts, launched a blow deep into South Germany, hitting Augsburg and four other towns. By nightfall, the R.A.F. crews were briefed and ready for a heavy followup, aimed mainly...
The statistics were impressive. From November's beginning to end, there were eight days and five nights when Europe's sirens were silent. Ideally interwoven, the U.S. Eighth Air Force and the R.A.F. saturated or outsmarted German defenses, kept their losses down to acceptable minimums (U.S. losses were...