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...among which were U.S. crews getting their first lesson in actual combat, to harass, work on the flanks, blunt the Sturm without meeting it in head-on collision. General Grants operated by U.S. crews waylaid one column of Mark Ills and Mark IVs and routed them. (Said Private Barney Rossi, of Brooklyn: "If we'd had our newest tanks we'd have moidered dem bums...
With the imminent possibility of a Jap bombing raid hanging over their heads, San Franciscans last week felt a strange, pleasant exhilaration. Oldtimers who saw the 1906 earthquake said that nothing the Japs could do would compare with that. Ever-optimistic Mayor Angelo J. Rossi said: "Why worry? No bombs have fallen...
...Mayor Rossi and the heads of city departments ran the show, used the city's 66,245 volunteers only in minor jobs. Blackouts were almost perfect. Mr. Rossi, who sells flowers on the side, doused his shop's electric sign, which had been left to glisten through a previous blackout. Sirens, at first inaudible above the traffic, were more ear-piercing. San Franciscans had sand in their homes, were ready to fight incendiaries...
...Francisco, citizens got a few sardonic laughs from some gagster's "Plan of Air-Raid Protection and Civilian Defense." The "plan," an ironic salute to bumbling Mayor Angelo Rossi, was "deduced from analysis of activity and progress to date." Excerpts...
Civilian Defense units were still largely unorganized. Last fortnight, when unidentified planes were reported 80 miles off the Coast, the city had its seventh blackout. Seven sirens, installed after long delay, were drowned out by traffic noises. (Twenty more were ordered at once.) During the blackout, Mayor Rossi was the only official to be found at City Hall, supposed to be the nerve center of air-raid protection. The Mayor did not see anything to get excited about. Said he: "There were no bombs dropped, were there...