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...open TIME'S Stockholm office, Scott crossed the Atlantic on a little unescorted merchant ship and flew to Sweden in the bombbay of a disarmed British Mosquito bomber that can carry only one passenger and flies only on moonless nights to lessen the chances of being shot down. His listening post is one of two we have set up in neutral European countries to get the truth out of Festung Euro pa and into the pages of TIME. The other is in Switzerland − and very soon I hope to be able to bring you word of still...
Soon the orange light rushed down on us out of the blackness, and, racing between us and a pale yellow star, disappeared. The night was moonless, and nowhere was there land...
...sseldorf's turn came on a moonless night last week. Three nights later it was Bremen's. Simultaneously Soviet bombers ranged over eastern Europe, attacking Königsberg in East Prussia, Bucharest and Rumania's Ploesti oil fields...
...then Fant turns up, a love-hungry fugitive, among the tobacco leaves. There are trysts like "that moonless July night, when Fant's whistle had wooed her out to the walnut grove." Two daughters are the result of these whistles. In their wake comes ostracism. For nobody on earth must know that hunted murderer Fant is still alive...
...fighting forces had shown themselves to the hero-worshipping public. Men of the R.A.F. who had bombed Augsburg in daylight and devastated Rostock at night. Commando-men who had raided Vagsoy and St.-Nazaire in blackface, U.S. flyers who had sunk subs in the Atlantic, had flown bombers on moonless nights over the South Pacific...