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Twice the Italian garrison had been invited to surrender. Admiral Gino Pavesi, senior Italian officer, and his men clung to Pantelleria's 32 sq. mi. of volcanic rock. Each refusal increased the tempo of attack. First the Spadillo airfield was blown to bits. Then the island's one good harbor, a nest for E-boats and submarines harassing the Sicilian straits, was smashed. Low-flying planes bounced their bombs down ramps leading to underground hangars. "Pattern bombing" crushed gun emplacements...
...hour battle above the Russian rail center of Kursk, 80 mi. south of Orel, Russian fighters fought a 500-German-plane armada to a standstill, forcing the Luftwaffe to dump its bombs at random. German losses to Russian anti-aircraft fire and fighter planes were 162 planes; Russian plane losses...
Inland Ships. Although Consolidated is inland and had never built ships, Alden Roach grabbed all the Navy and Maritime Commission contracts he could reach. He had a plan. Consolidated would prefabricate ships in the plant at Maywood, trans port parts 22 mi. by truck and assemble them in yards at Wilmington and Long Beach. In August 1941 Alden Roach was upped to the top. He went right on expanding the company in all directions. He cagily hired Captain Harry B. Hird, former commandant of marine construction at Pearl Harbor, had him ready to run the huge consolidated naval-craft plant...
...theater. The weight of bombs dropped in a recently stepped-up campaign against the Japanese in the area is another. Last week the heavy bombers of Lieut. General George C. Kenney, Allied air chief in the Southwest Pacific, made a record raid on the Japanese stronghold of Lae, 180 mi. north and across the mountains from Moresby. The record: 36 tons of bombs, or the equivalent of twelve fully loaded Flying Fortresses...
...size of the air force at his disposal is no indication of the size of the task facing cocky, fighting little Lieut. General Kenney. His targets stretch over a curve reaching from Jap-held Timor in The Netherlands Indies to the Solomon Islands. Within this 4,000-mi. arc the Japanese have concentrated more air power and troops than anywhere else in the Far Eastern war zone except in China. They may have an offensive thrust in mind: to clean the Allies out of Australia's outlying islands and launch an invasion of Australia itself. Or they...