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Churches are full to overflowing. At night an occasional German raider streaks over England, spatters a few bombs. Britons and their guests are not disturbed; the important air traffic is going the other way, to the Continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Base of History | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

...Pilot Walter S. McDonnell had spotted another surfaced raider and had put his big, four-motored Liberator into a dive. Also caught by surprise, that German crew' chose to fight it out. They turned deck guns on McDonnell's plane. The bombardier, navigator, co-pilot and assistant radio operator were wounded; McDonnell leveled off only a few feet above the waves, his wounded bombardier dropped depth charges which straddled the wriggling chattering sub. In a mass of smoke and fire it broke in two and sank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: The Army's Gulls | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Missing in Action. Air Forces Lieut. Colonel Charles Greening, Tokyo raider credited with devising the 20? bombsight that was used lest a Norden fall in Jap hands; in a raid over Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 30, 1943 | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...photographic reconnaissance on the Northwest African front, the Air Medal was awarded to Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, who last December got the Distinguished Flying Cross. In Auckland, N.Z., on leave from command of a raider battalion in the South Pacific, older brother Lieut. Colonel James Roosevelt was reported headed for the San Diego Naval Hospital with a light case of malaria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 24, 1943 | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...radio net that Mickey dominates by sheer voice power is an entirely new web thrown over the superlative Chinese A.R.P. net in the last eight months. Never in the past four years has an undetected Jap raider slipped through that net into the hinterland. The Chinese posts are usually far away in hills, jungles and valleys. One man pumps current for the radio with his legs, another reports what the Japs are doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: China Outpost | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

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