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Until Dunkirk Mary Welsh was the only woman war correspondent with the R.A.F. in France, and before that she was at Munich and in the Sudetenland when Hitler's troops marched over the border. She was working for Lord Beaverbrook's London Express then-but when the Nazi...
> One day this month over 30 heavily laden planes rumbled off rough, badly lighted fields in Labrador, winged across 800 miles of stormy water to secret airfields in Greenland. All records later flopped when 60 round trips were made in three days.
Lambeth will miss him, especially its ex-convicts, admiring a man who operated on such a resplendent scale. He had achieved Britain's biggest charity racket since the palmy days of Horatio Bottomly. In the pubs they said: "There was more give away since they rumbled* 'im larst...
Farther west, where the bewildered Vichyfrench still clung to the ghostly pretense of control, the ground rumbled too. Two British planes swept over Algeria, were shot down by French craft. (Two more fell before French attack down the west African coast below Dakar.) Through that defeat-darkened land German technicians...
There were thousands of them-leggy, strapping, bronzed fellows. They marched through Northern Ireland's streets and lanes with silent, rubber-heeled tread that still seems impressively American to hard-heeled Britons. They rumbled through towns and across fields in rubber-treaded tanks; for the first time Britons at...