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Elsewhere in old Yugoslavia at least six smaller Axis-surrounded islands carry on the struggle: 1) in the mountains behind Split, bands of Croats fight the Italians; 2) farther north, around Delnice, other Croats strike hard & often at Italian garrisons near Fiume; 3) eastward on the Croat plain, patriot guerrillas are so active that the Germans have acknowledged the necessity of sending flotillas down the Danube to fight them; 4) in the Croat forests, an underground peasant organization, Zeleni Kadar (Green Quarters), resists both the Germans and their puppet terrorist, Ante Pavelich; 5) Slovenes in the farthest northern section resist...
Biggest U.S. loss was the carrier Yorktown, bombed, torpedoed and forced out of action. The destroyer Hammann was plain sunk. Other U.S. losses: 92 officers, 215 enlisted...
...drum-tight censorship. The U.S. could only speculate on how many men and how much equipment at West Coast ports were being nastily diverted northward, how much reinforcement had been received from the battle-trained Royal Canadian Air Force, what preparations were afoot to dislodge the Japs. Plain to see was that, although Japan had paid a heavy price for its Aleutian foothold, if the U.S. intended to kick the Jap out, the U.S., too, would...
London presents a far happier picture of well-contented men. Officers are inundated with posh invitations in their spare time. Said one, after dining with several titles: "Aren't there any plain people around here?" A most touching letter from a North England elderly widowed miner offered "to share my bed with a Pittsburgh miner." When the London Daily Express printed a box: Take an American Soldier Home to Tea on July 4th, the friendly British queued at headquarters extending invitations, expecting soldiers...
...Forces. General Spaatz's command had to be accented strongly on the side of ground-bound outfits: Engineers, Air Forces supply men, Air Base groups. These outfits will operate airdromes, build overhaul depots to put planes back in running order when major crackups or plain wear & tear put them out of the fight...