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...Trap. The Luftwaffe and the satellite Italian air force are in a bad way. The Luftwaffe did not attempt to ward off Allied attacks on Italian ports until May 19, when the Germans lost 29 planes. On one day in late May, 91 Axis planes were destroyed on the ground, 27 in the air. Fifty-eight out of 59 were wrecked on one field alone. Monthly tabulations of Allied and Axis losses speak for themselves...
When he lies low, the Italian bases he is supposed to protect are open to heavier & heavier bombing. The Luftwaffe in the Mediterranean is in a closing trap...
...furious tongue." At home with handsome Lady Harris (his second wife, whom he married in 1938) and their four-year-old daughter Jackie, he can indeed be gentle. But men who serve with him learn sooner or later that his gentle face is a sort of booby trap, luring the unwary to the lash of his tongue...
...slope and headed down the other side toward the Wadi Zigzau. Abruptly we came to the brink. Across the wadi machine guns were dueling with unexampled ferocity. Below, between two banks, perhaps 50 yards across, glinted water and broken pieces of ground. It looked like an infernal death trap to enter...
...cast in general is up to its great dramatic roles and Mabel Paige is particularly phoney and constantly intoxicated mother. It's well worth the price of admission. And, of yes, there's that exciting little sequence where Helen Walker pulls up her skirts to trap an evil-minded Nazi gunman...