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...White House. We began moving forward. Officers yelled: "Scatter! You want to all get killed at once?" We panted up a big hill. In the middle of an almond orchard we came out on another crest. Here, with two walkie-talkies, the Colonel again set up his command post...
...trained men . went down, other planes and crews were badly shot up. At one base, the night after the raid, an entire barracks was empty. The loss was serious, its effects were prolonged. Replacements had to be whipped into shape, squadrons and crews had to be broken up to scatter the experienced survivors among the newcomers. Until May 1, when new crews were trained, damaged planes repaired, the Bomber Command of the Eighth Air Force made no more raids...
...ours." Out of the sun across the battlefield sweep three planes toward Edinburgh Castle. A loud series of crumps rends the air, huge clouds of blackish-grey smoke spring up at the foot of Edinburgh. Machine gunners on Sherman tanks let loose at the planes. Startled birds scatter in all directions...
...hell in the port. A Frenchman who had been caught in a hotel near the port told me he had never seen such superb gunnery in his life-that every shot which came in landed in the port and none lit in the town. Some shell fragments did scatter, naturally, and in at least one other locality, some houses were hit and a number of Arabs were killed. However, I would not have believed it possible for operations on such a scale to cause so little harm to civilians. Certainly the Americans did everything to avoid injuring the town...
...year ago the famous anthropologist's plan for the creation of a new synthetic German race from foreign elements, to replace the natural inhabitants of the Reich whom he proposed to scatter after obliterating their state, was denounced by Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, as untenable...