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...high battle for Tengyueh (Tengchung) on the Burma-Yunnan border, went U.S. Tenth Air Force planes from India to help the Chinese in their stone-by-stone reconquest of the walled city. Near by, U.S. and Chinese engineers literally blew the top off Sungshan Mountain with three tons of TNT. The Japs manning the peak went with it. One more step toward reopening the Burma Road was taken...
...worst that one V-1 flying bomb could do was done in London last week. It streaked down during the noonday rush on a shop-lined street. Its 2,240 lbs. of TNT blew apart a crowded restaurant, filled the air with knife-edged shards of splintered glass. The blast wrenched off the top deck of a bus, tore apart another bus. Passengers were dazed, their clothing afire...
...civilian surrendered. At Marpi Point, the marines had tried to dislodge a Jap sniper from a cave in the cliff. For a Jap, he was an exceptional marksman; he had killed two marines (one at 700 yds.) and wounded a third. The marines used rifles, torpedoes and, finally, TNT in a 45-minute effort to force him out. Meantime the Jap had other business...
...munitions, bound for Pearl Harbor, Melbourne, the Philippines. But the munitions-loading grew. Slingloads of shells and high explosives were turning dozens of the new grey Liberty ships into floating bombs in scores of American harbors. Thousands of men & women spent their days & nights making and handling cordite and TNT...
...four-block charge of TNT blew black dust high into the air and made a terrific noise. Big waves of black smoke and debris billowed out of the cave. But this was a well-constructed hole which went deep into the earth and heaven knows how far back. About all that came to the surface was the wooden framing of two-inch planks and a cheap suitcase filled with shirts and silk underwear and an empty cloth pocketbook...