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...Lightning fighters. And below them, adding bombardment to bombing, were cruisers and destroyers under Rear Admiral Allan E. Smith. It was the heaviest air strike in the history of the Pacific war, and marked the first time that B-29s had teamed with other forces. The bombing was through overcast, but with some 1,300 tons of steel and explosive rained upon its installations, concentrated into eight square miles, Sulphur Island earned its name...
Only intermittently did the weather hold back the Allied big bombers, which used their hidden-target instruments when necessary to unload through overcast. With Duisburg and Cologne temporarily shattered, the heavies turned their attention to Hamm, Bonn, Mainz, Wiesbaden, Stuttgart, Mannheim and other supply ganglia serving the West Wall. It was an effort to wall off the Rhineland from the interior-just as, in the Battle of France, Allied air power had isolated the fighting area between the Loire and the Seine...
Ships and Bombs. D-day was Aug. 15. It began in cloudy night with a crescent moon shining fitfully through the overcast upon calm sea. Before the day was 30 minutes old the attack began with a commando landing on the Hyères Islands off Cap Bénat-where the now sunken French fleet used to take its exercise on sunny days. A few hours later more parachutists and gliders landed beyond the Monts des Maures -the Moorish Mountains-that rise between Toulon and Saint-Raphael...
...Overcast skies threatened to break loose last Saturday afternoon at Soldiers Field, but the only real deluge that struck was the flood of base hits that rattled off Harvard bats, as Coach Floyd Stahl's outfit took the measure of an outclassed Tufts team...
Thursday broke with a heavy overcast, darkened in patches by rain squalls. The sun tried to pierce the vapors, and a rainbow appeared. At the end of the rain bow, as the seaward-looking Chamorros saw it, were most of the U.S. Fifth Fleet and 'the ships of the Third Amphibious Group under round-faced, round-bellied Rear Admiral Richard L. Conolly. At the end of the rainbow, as the shoreward-looking U.S. seamen and assault troops saw it, was the airstrip on Orote Peninsula...