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...drove west or defensively feared the west, in this crucial spring he would want all the help he could get from France both inside France and wherever French forces might profitably go into action. Pierre Laval was the man willing to deliver that help, whether he found himself a shield & buckler for the Führer or a cushion for Hitler's backside...
...Japs once reported - something was seriously wrong with Japan's air defenses. If the U.S. raiders lost only two or three - as the Japs first reported - Japan has no air defenses to speak of. Whatever the true figure, Tokyo evidently had few fighters at home to shield herself...
...crowd on the Mall in Washington got a demonstration of defense equipment from the top: OCDirector James M. Landis, who crouched behind a protective shield, played a stream of water on what might have been an incendiary...
...blocked their way to the beachhead where they were to embark and escape, but these Germans were taken in the rear by Army troops which had landed from light craft, backed up by the guns of Navy ships. The parachutists joined the troops on the beach, embarked under a shield of Navy shellfire, and the whole force moved triumphantly off under a screen of fighter planes. German fighters buzzed up in angry pursuit, but they bounced, for the most part, off the British umbrella...
...never been avid for public office, said quietly: "Our honeymoon is finished. ... A new way of life is forced upon us. ... The time for controversy has ended. ... I am not going to waste time arguing about past mistakes. ... I will order and direct. . . . There is only one shield against the spread of total war, that is total effort to end it. ... Brains and brawn are better than bets and beer...