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...same week that the Rhine was crossed, the U.S. people learned the full toll of what their might of arms had wrought in Cologne. No one, except the overly sentimental, shed tears. But for the first time the certain chaos of postwar Germany was made graphic. Everyone knew now that, no matter when the war in Europe ends, its end would not bring a cessation of grave problems. And there was still the stern prospect of the Pacific...
...Unknown Toll. Last week, reconnaissance units of the 40th Division advancing on Manila came to Camp O'Donnell. The Japs had moved their troops out the day before, after putting the torch to the buildings. The last of the Filipino prisoners had been moved out a year earlier, and no man knew how many had died. A Filipino colonel put the number...
There U.S. warplanes had a good haul. They sank 41 enemy ships and damaged 28 more (almost 200,000 tons). The toll included two entire convoys, a Katori-class light cruiser and the dismantled French cruiser Lamotte-Picquet. But the most damaging blows were the sinkings of tankers bearing oil from the Indies and strikes against oil refineries at Saigon. The enemy put up what aircraft he could to defend his supposedly sheltered outposts; 112 were shot down...
...pier. In Halifax, whole streets of houses crumpled as if struck by a giant hand. The concussion crushed people to pulp or tossed them high. The walls of a school fell in on 200 children before they could rise from their seats. Countless fires started, merged into one. The toll: 2,000 dead, another 500 never accounted for, 20,000 injured. Property damage totaled some...
...crippled Soryu. But this was the first time a sub had been credited with a certain kill, unassisted by other forces. No details were disclosed; Navy Secretary Forrestal regretted that the submarine fleet must remain the Navy's silent service. Silent or not, it had run its toll of sinkings to 99 Jap combat ships and 835 tankers, transports and auxiliaries. The cost: 34 U.S. submarines lost from all causes. Latest victim was the Seawolf, with a brilliant record dating back to the Java campaign...