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...Raid. The Jap was close enough to hear the engines when they began to roar. But by then it was too late. The P-40s streaked across this field and across the trees. They were lightly loaded with gas (it was to be a short trip), heavily loaded with bombs (but a lively...
...roar and crash of cannonade and the bursting bombs that are shaking my typewriter, and my hands, which are wet with nervous perspiration, tell me without the need of an official communique that the war ... is today in the outskirts of this bastion of empire. . . . Don't expect to hear from me for many days, but please inform Mrs. McDaniel . . . that I have left this land of the living & dying...
...their deadly work on artillery emplacements and lines that were held by courage, not strength. A khaki flood was pouring on Singapore along a two-mile front between Sungei Mandai and Sungei Kranji. The sprawling suburbs of Singapore heard the whine of machine gun bullets almost constantly above the roar of strafing planes. In the whole day there were only 31 minutes free from bombing from the air. Defending artillery fire still rumbled comfortingly, but it seemed to lessen. The skies were red with the flames of burning oil tanks, and then smoke palled the air. Singapore radio suddenly went...
Army radio men jumped. Down from the sky near Phoenix, Ariz, came a shrill drizzle of unmistakably Oriental jabber. They flashed an alert to nearby airfields. Out rolled patrol and scout planes, to snort and roar on the line in a hurried warmup. Suddenly somebody remembered that Chinese flyers were training in the area (TIME, Nov. 17). That was it, all right. Two of them, having a plane-to-plane chat by radio, had found piloting and talking English too tough, had relapsed into their native Chinese...
...Tokyo radio said--"Singapore City reverted to its role of frontier down in the final phase of the Malayan campaign. Its streets ran with blood and its tropical calm was shattered by the travelling roar of rifle, machine gun and artillery fire as Japanese forces ran the British defenders out of the city in desperate street fighting...