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With steers beginning to jam stockyard pens and hogs flooding to market, the U.S. Government moved to put more meat on U.S. platters. It did this by lifting quotas on livestock slaughter so that the stockyard pens could be cleared. It also lowered ration points on many meat items.
"Evacuation involved destroying equipment and installations. In some cases the Japs did a good job. Three midget submarines, which long ago had been taken out of the ocean into pens, had their bellies blown out. Many containers of food had been jabbed with bayonets and stank from spoilage.
"Peace is being sold as a commodity just like electricity or fountain pens or perfume. High-pressure salesmanship presents victory as the gateway to new iceboxes, new automobiles. . . . Peace will be when you can build a new home, cash your war bonds and have nothing further to worry about. . . ."
On May 1, during a raid on the Nazi U-boat pens at St.-Nazaire, his bomber. Fortress 649, was badly hit and burst into flame. The fire sweeping the fuselage drove the radio operator and both waist gunners to "bail out. Emerging from his turret, Snuffy cast aside his...
On July 4 this week the U.S. Eighth Air Force celebrated a technical anniversary by giving an aircraft factory at Le Mans in France its second bombing of the week ("They can just cross that factory off the list"). Fortresses also attacked airplane repair shops at Nantes and U-boat...