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Magic Carpet. In a four-motor Liberator-type transport, the junketing Senators flew to the British Isles, to Casablanca, to Marrakech, Cairo, Basra and Calcutta, to Chungking (where they met China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek), to Australia, Guadalcanal (three days), and homeward via New Caledonia, the Fiji Islands, Honolulu and San Francisco...
Only one thing was lacking: actual invasion. Motor torpedo boats snarled along the Channel coasts of France and the Lowlands. A convoy of warships and troop ships appeared in mid-Channel, where German reconnaissance was sure to see them. The Germans saw, too clearly. Judging this display for what it was-a climax to extensive invasion maneuvers in Britain - the Luftwaffe sent up few planes to be shot down by lurking Allied airmen. But, through a night and the following day, the R.A.F. and the U.S. Eighth Air Force attacked a selected strip of French coastland, and targets behind...
...Wehrmacht's losses. In the two thunderous months which followed the launching of Hitler's abortive summer offensive on July 5, the Wehrmacht lost, by Russian count, more than 1,500,000 men (420,000 killed), 9,400 tanks, 5,700 planes, 7,200 guns, 35,800 motor vehicles...
...have more than balanced its oil books. Actually, Humble's president finds that the books are far out of balance. His reason: "Drastic changes have occurred in refinery operations in order to supply aviation gasoline, materials for the synthetic-rubber program and other war products. . . . The yield of motor gasoline has been reduced over 500,000 bbl. daily...
...improvised shipyard beside the Cargill grain elevators in Albany, N.Y. Only grief it ever met was a storm on Lake Michigan, which sank it in 60 feet of water. Chris Jensen got a salvage crew together, yanked the 300-ft. link of barges to the surface, had the motor, running an hour later, cut the usual salvage cost in half...