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Bombers from Britain gave western Germany and the defending Luftwaffe the hardest pounding of the war. In eight nights the R.A.F. attacked eight times. Its saturation raids fell upon steel and tin mills, munitions works, coal piles and chemical plants in the broken Ruhr, and crews noted that the once...
Slow Scrap. After the choice pieces were culled, the remaining litter of battle was trucked to dumps. Flame-twisted tank fragments, broken rifles, smashed helmets are worthless except as scrap for the steel furnaces of U.S. and Britain. Most of this junk of battle may stay where it is in...
Symbolic of the Cabinet's viewpoint was one of its first acts: suspension (for two days) of the reactionary Istanbul newspaper Tasviri Efkar, for deriding America's war aims. Symbolic of unchanged domestic policies were the trainloads of minority Greeks, Armenians and Jews still leaving for prison-camp...
"Everywhere one turned there were piles of bodies; here one with a backbone visible from the front, and the rest of the flesh and bone peeled up over the man's head, like the leaf of an artichoke; there a charred head, hairless but still equipped with blackened eyeballs...
The Battle for Buna, which many observers had thought would be a pushover, was developing last week into a major struggle for control of New Guinea. It was being fought as fiercely as any battle on Guadalcanal. Allied casualties, mostly wounded, mounted steadily and piles of Jap corpses rotted in...