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...recently named Superfortress, is a four-engined bomber and the biggest long-range bomb carrier the world has ever seen. By Flight's description it can lug a load of more than eight tons 1,000 mi. (i.e., a 500-mi. radius), can carry three tons 3,000 mi. Its wing span is 141 ft. (Fortress span...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Superfortress | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...three miles above captured Ortona (TIME, Jan. 10), the Eighth Army paused. A gale, whipping down from the Apennines, ripped away roof tiles, chilled men and mules, stalled movement. "Point 59," another pillboxed ridge, barred the nine miles yet to go to Pescara, Adriatic terminal of the shortest (125 mi.) trans-peninsular railroad and highway to Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: By Bits & Pieces | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Atolls of War. The Marshalls group has more than twice as many atolls (33) as the Gilberts (16), but in total land area they are slightly smaller. Their 160 sq. mi. (half as large as New York City) of sand, coral and coconut palm are scattered over 150,000 sq. mi. (as large as Montana) of blue water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Softening the Marshalls | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...figures, 95% of all the United Nations' aviation gas comes from the U.S. and 65% of the U.S.'s total overseas tonnage for war is devoted to carrying oil. Another shocker-statistic: in the continental U.S. one well has been drilled for every three sq. mi. v. one in every 526 sq. mi. for the rest of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: In Search of a Policy | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

TERRITORY AREA (sq. mi.) POPULATION ACQUIRED Japan homeland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: IN FACT, IN SPIRIT, IN PURPOSE | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

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