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...power to drive them out now, how can we expect to do it when they get fully established?" An old Alaska hand, who has prospected for gold and practiced law, Delegafe Dimond declared that there are 25,000 Jap fighters in the Aleutians.* By taking Kiska the Japs are nearer the U.S. Pacific coast-and the Panama Canal-than if they had won Midway. "The Japs knew the size of their own forces, so why wasn't the U.S. public informed of the invading force's size?" asked Tony Dimond...
...second front. The warning from the Don was this: It was the Red Army, not the German Army, which had suffered the most in the winter campaign. The Red Army was by no means at the end of its fighting tether, but it was coming nearer to the end every...
...between the wars with the Finns and with the Nazis that Semion Timoshenko cemented his reputation, received his highest honors. He came as near as he ever dared, and nearer than most of his brother officers, to outright conflict with the Communist Party. Reorganizing the army to correct the defects of the Finnish campaign, he booted out the Party commissars who had been attached to every important Army unit. With General Georgy Zhukov, a reputedly brilliant newcomer to the High Command, he simplified Army organization, improved communications, cut tape which in any other army would be called red. Zhukov last...
...production had enabled Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris' air force to reach such proportions, R.A.F. figures announced last week were revealing: aircraft operating from the British Isles are 87% British, 13% American. Once the U.S. air force in Britain gets into operation, however, those figures may be nearer a balance...
...though these pilots burned a black belt of gutted hulks across the desert, they noticed that the main German force was getting nearer, swinging north and east, splitting, opening like a jaw. Things seemed to be getting worse. A huge tank battle was developing, and Rommel seemed to be forcing his way north to the coast. The German High Command announced that the desert fighting was finally taking "a favorable course" for the Axis...