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...Army life "off limits" was T-4 George R. Imhof's Leaving Fast-a harassed G.I. taking hasty leave of two dingy girls in a dingy back room (see cut). At the opposite pole of graphic imagery: Corporal Neil D. Schworm Jr.'s Corpse in the Moonlight, a gouache fantasy featuring a robed skeleton floating high over a toylike country church...
...clear moonlight of Thursday, pathfinder B-29s woke Tokyo up with 100-lb. oil bombs to mark the first target-Shinagawa, in the city's southeastern outskirts. Behind them thundered more than 550 bombers, the greatest force of B-29s yet used, with 4,500 tons of incendiaries. Almost two hours later, when the planes were gone, an estimated 3.2 square miles of Shinagawa, packed with freight yards, airplane-parts factories and war plants, were a raging blaze. Remarked one U.S. officer: "[It is] the most vulnerable combination of productivity, congestion and inflammability to be found anywhere in Japan...
...that was just the beginning. On D-day Walton went in with the paratroopers long before dawn, flung himself out of the plane door at such low altitude that "there was only a moment to look around in the moonlight as my chute opened. I landed in a pear tree, which was a good shock absorber, but I didn't filter through to the ground; instead I dangled helplessly about three feet above ground, a perfect target for the snipers I could hear not far away...
...boats darted out from Mindoro to join the battle, but had to be recalled because U.S. planes were attacking them, mistaking them for Japs in the fitful moonlight. The Mitchells sank the lead Jap destroyer, then the next, finally a third. The cruiser had been damaged. By 1:30 a.m. the enemy ships made a 180° turn and ran back, trailing oil, to the South China...
...philosophical pauses, such as clogged the pell-mell action of Anthony Adverse, slow down Captain from Castile. It has all the trappings of romantic fiction: moonlight trysts, carousals, desperate galloping, clashing swords, a gallows scene, the education of an innocent girl in the arts of love by her worldly-wise duenna...