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...enclosed photo shows the Matford Plant of the Ford Motor Co. of France in flames after a recent Royal Air Force bombing raid...
...Ford Motor Co. Dearborn, Mich...
...Santa Fe station in down town Los Angeles another group of 500 aliens and Nisei (all men, as were the Japs who went by motor) boarded a special 13-car Southern Pacific train for Manzanar. A few impassive-faced Japanese women stood on the platform, handed up pop bottles through the open windows, waved good-by with composure. One was a white girl, clutching the hand of a small, wide-eyed, yellow-skinned...
...nosed through the harbor nets in the Loire estuary under a bright dome of anti-aircraft fire that brought into sharp relief the gaunt lines of her ancient U.S. hull. Around her, the motor gunboats and torpedo boats whined and sputtered. Above her. R.A.F. bombers roared and pounded. From the shore two powerful searchlights sought her out, and as the land batteries cut loose with furious cross-fire she belched angrily from her four thin stacks, stepped up her speed to 20 knots. Her 4-in. deck guns were quick to answer the shells that screamed at her from every...
...mine fields, swung into firing position four miles from their objective. Overhead British bombers, roaring on to blast two Axis airdromes, dropped flares over the city of Rhodes which lit it brilliantly. Their target clear, the guns of the fleet in 20 minutes flung 20 tons of shells at motor-torpedo-boat bases, docks and factories. Startled Italian defenders took ten minutes to man their anti-aircraft guns and shore batteries, were still firing into the sky (thinking they were being bombed) when the attacking ships retired. Not a plane was lost, not a rating injured, the British reported...