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...need of adequate fire protection is urgent. . . . The method of alarm at present is totally inadequate. It consists of an old motor horn of the press-bulb type, implemented vocally by the fire chief...
...enemy motor transports destroyed, 13,094 damaged...
...best flying days, half of everything the enemy tried to move to the front was estimated to have been wiped out or halted. In the first twelve days of the offensive, Allied aircraft destroyed or damaged 775 tanks, 3,300 motor vehicles...
...first three days of the breakthrough the weather was still a German ally. Then it deserted Rundstedt. From the fourth day until last week the Ninth Air Force had some clear hours every day to press home its attack on German motor columns and supply trains...
During the rest of that day, the 1,060-ton Ward, named after the first naval officer to be killed in the Civil War, remained on patrol. She ducked Jap air attacks, captured a motor-driven sampan with three prisoners. From that day on she was up to her gunwales in the Pacific war: she fought in the Solomons, bombarded Aitape, took part in the Aitape and Biak landings, saw action at Cape Sansapor, Morotai, Dinagat, Leyte...