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...droned in on their fixed bomb-run courses over the Mitsubishi engine plant at Nagoya and the Musashino-Nakajima factory in a Tokyo suburb. The big planes met them with a hail of fire, shot down 136. The remaining 37 fell to the Mustangs, which had to chase their prey. Five U.S. bombers and two fighters were lost...
...716th threw themselves on the mercy of a cold court last week, all their brag was gone. The defense made its points as well as it could: 1) the accused had been left largely to shift for themselves soon after Dday, and so had become easy prey for the black-marketeers; 2) officers knew of the situation and tolerated it; 3) so many units were entangled that feelings of moral guilt reached the vanishing point...
...stretches in hospital gave him time to analyze the gulf between homefront and warfront-something that never fails to prey on the minds of returning war correspondents. "After an absence of two years, New York looks normal," wrote Timesman Atkinson last week. "Despite many shortages in variety and volume, the food is excellent. . . . Shop windows along Fifth Avenue look brazenly luxurious, although everyone complains that 'you can't buy a thing. . . .' People seem to be living under tension, which is apparent in the boorishness and impatience of public manners. There is an overtone of desperation...
...hills his armies sped almost as fast as if the weather were good. Infantry was switched to the muddy back roads, vehicles were given the right of way on paved highways. The Germans, forced to retreat without preparation, cluttered the roads, lost their vehicles in the backwoods mud, fell prey to Russian encirclements. Tolbukhin's forces reached the south shores of the great inland lake, quickly cleared it of the last knots of German defense, then bulged around the eastern end toward Budapest...
Cabildo, a pro-Nazi mouthpiece of the ultranationalists, ran an editorial entitled "The Intemperate Old Man," found Secretary Hull "prey to abnormal exasperation...