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Throughout the United Nations, suspense mounted. All winter long, retreating here & there, Hitler and his troops had endured, had waited, had piled up strength for the decisive battle. Now spring spread northward in ever-widening circles (see map). The zero hour was hard by. Hitler had feinted with one of the "peace offensives" which are always his last step before war of nerves turns to war of gunpowder...
This ends a definite stage of the war as now all the rice, salt, oil and tin are in Japanese hands, and what remains of Burma will make it difficult to support large armies and the hordes of helpless refugees streaming northward. The plane is going...
Labrador's air base is merely one in a string, stretching northward from Newfoundland to Baffin Island. From Newfoundland and Labrador planes fly a constant anti-submarine patrol. The Labrador fields, although north of the Army's bases in Newfoundland, are better off for all-year flying than those in Newfoundland. Reason: Newfoundland's persistent, plaguing fogs, which have often interrupted but never halted bomber deliveries to Britain. Even Greenland's vast, inland icecap is not the hazard which most people suppose it to be. Says the U.S. Army Air Corps Arctic Manual (published...
...microscope, stab them with hundreds of incendiary plummets, consume wide wooded areas and wipe out scores of villages. Flames nightly lick the demi-jungle under a full yellow moon, so that a ghastly orange ring encircles Burmese arsonists, looters, desolate lines of Indians' oxcarts beginning to go northward on their long hegira to India, and Chinese trucks, cyclists, American scout cars and artillery going southward to the front...
...almost certain that the Japanese would drive on northward, do their most to block these lifelines. With the same stroke, they would further brace themselves for a sea-and-air drive across the Bay of Bengal at India. The Allies, with all Burma gone, would find it harder than ever to defend uncertain India, harder still to place bombers, tanks and artillery in China to answer the flames of Toungoo...