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...week of diversified air attacks over Greater Germany. As the nights grew longer the offensive arc expanded steadily. Early in the week British and Canadian heavy bombers gave the twin Rhineland industrial cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen their 57th aerial pounding of the war. On the same night fast Mosquito bombers struck at the Ruhr and the Fighter Command jabbed at airfields and railways in France and the Low Countries...
...Nazi party. Two large diesel-engine factories, two trunk railway junctions and other targets felt the weight of more than 1,500 tons of bombs, including thousands of incendiaries. Returning pilots reported the Germans using Dornier-217 bombers as night fighters, indicating the Nazi shortage of fighter aircraft. Pesky Mosquito bombers flying at 400 m.p.h. gave Berlin its 68th and 69th aerial pastings of the war. This week allied planes hit again at Paris' Le Bourget, six other French fields...
...plants not only air-condition with Freon, but use it to keep precision tools at a constant temperature. Because of its safety, the U.S. Navy and Maritime Commission use it exclusively on ships and submarines. Then last May the Surgeon General's office showed up with a malarial mosquito-killer called an aerosol, publicized as the "mosquito bomb." The "Mosquito Bomb" is a spray gun holding about one pound of insecticide...
...Seagrave slept without a mosquito net. He has not been free of malaria since. When the bombing of Rangoon began and the American women and children were ordered out of Burma, Mrs. Seagrave reluctantly agreed to go (she had malaria...
Captain Robert Thompson, who commands the Scouts, picks his men for one chief quality: ability to live for long periods off the barren Alaska land, subzero blasts to mosquito-clotted summer mugginess. Their physical endurance is far beyond the ordinary soldier's; one Scout walked 90 miles over corrugated tundra in three days. Scouts use Trapper Nelson packs instead of the Army's steel-framed rucksack, shun Army K and C rations for dehydrated beef and other foods which weigh less. A Scout's greatest fear is that he may fall through the ice, numb his hands...