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Surrender to Air. The next day interdiction became close tactical support. Fighters swooped on German armor trying to stop the Allied drive. Pilots, discovering that enemy tanks were vulnerable in the rear, dived on them and shot them up with machine-gun bullets through air vents and exhaust pipes...
...Jima the battle ground forward, slowly, bloodily but steadily. According to Japanese custom, the enemy garrison, now estimated at an original 20,000, was fighting a rear-guard action with no hope of reinforcement or relief...
...Planes Came. With daylight came U.S. planes - 1,300 in direct support, others chopping at Nazi rear communications. Jülich fell to the Ninth Army - all but a 16th-Century citadel surrounded by a moat 20 feet deep and a wall 14 feet thick and 45 feet high. Next day the Ninth's 29th Division assaulted the cita del with 755 and flamethrowers. When the Yanks finally got in, they found a few German dead. The other defenders had run out, during the night, through a tunnel that led to the woods...
...House of Commons passed a bill making rear lights compulsory on bicycles (in 2,000 nights of war more people had been killed by traffic on country roads than by bombs or V-weapons...
Britain's Harold Macmillan, Resident Minister for the Central Mediterranean, and the U.S.'s Rear Admiral Ellery W. Stone, Chief of the Allied Commission in Italy, reported to Prime Minister Ivanoe Bonomi: Allied military needs remain paramount, and cobelligerent Italy is not yet accepted as an ally. But the Allied Commission surrenders to the Italian Government all save "advisory" control over Italian foreign relations, legislative and administrative functions...