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...Watchful Days. During the days, when raids are likely, or on moonlight nights when the Japs make a sortie, there is very little horseplay. Everybody is listening, receiving, decoding. Sometimes you hear one of the service planes making "the milk run" to one section of the network line...
...retailing through big concerns like Sears, Roebuck and Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. Its customers are mostly U.S. farm families. To this small but steady market, Imperial sells approximately half a million pianola rolls a year. Biggest current sellers: When the Lights Go on Again, Moonlight Becomes You, The Beer Barrel Polka, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life, The Star-Spangled Banner...
...TIME Correspondent Harry Zinder, shivering in a slit trench, as he watched the infantry go forward, reported:" They stood up, held their guns easily, moved out of their trenches fanning out slightly so that the line was almost dead perfect in the moonlight as far as I could see. When they moved a bright green flare went up and dripped down behind, then two more and then another, and in that eerie light all you could see were soldiers shuffling toward the enemy. . . . There was little left in doubt except the speed with which Tripoli would be reached...
...54th raid of the war, "Red" Harris had picked up the task he had pledged himself to resume. Next night his bombers were back again. But this time Berlin was waiting and there were night fighters, apparently drafted from the Ruhr, where they could ill be spared. And moonlight (instead of clouds as on the night before) gave them better opportunities. That night the R.A.F. lost 22 planes...
...framed too," I said, remembering Jap bombers I'd seen the A.V.G.s shoot down in the moonlight over China...