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Necessity also lay behind such reasoning. U.S. heavy bombers, with high speed, great defensive firepower and small bomb capacity (two and four tons), are best suited to daylight precision bombing. British bombers, slower, with less armament and greater bomb capacity (eight and nine tons), are best suited to night operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF EUROPE: What Price Bombing? | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

Early stages of the blackout manifested clock-like precision and cooperation between defense authorities and civilians, but confusion was evident in the minds of both regarding return to normal. As a result of the misinterpretations of directions, House lights were popping on and off during the interval between the blue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State-Wide Blackout Finds Harvard Ready | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

Lou Diamond is one of the brightest legends in the legend-studded Marine Corps. Accuracy is his passion. He likes to talk about a baseball game at Tientsin in 1934, when a Marine batter hit a line drive that killed a sparrow in flight. In this accident he sees a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Mortar Man | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

Giant Lancasters, attacking the northern industrial heart of Italy, left "colossal" fires blazing at Turin and made their first swoop over Mussolini's naval base at La Spezia. R.A.F. bombers by night, U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators by day, flew over western Europe. They gave Hamburg its 95th plastering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Desperate Campaign | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

Warstuffs. Naturally and by conquest, Japan now finds herself in possession of just about all the raw materials she needs for war. Copper is the only apparent shortage, and she has plenty of aluminum to substitute. She has crude oil to spare and soon will have refineries at work. She...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: We Have Not Yet Begun | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

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