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...many personal encounters in civilian life. Levy specialties, as taught in both Britain and the U.S.: use of incendiaries, bombs and grenades, harassing enemy communications, and tactics such as: delaying armored vehicles with infantry, small improvised weapons, hand-to-hand combat, scouting, counter-parachute-troop action, street fighting...
Dive-bombers dipped, torpedo-planes flew low and level at the massed Jap cruisers, destroyers, troop transports, auxiliaries. The attacking pilots swore and yelled into their phones in excitement. Some of their targets sank at anchor; others, aflame, died on the harbor beaches. From three attacks that day, every U.S. plane returned to the mother carriers—the Lexington and another, unnamed—waiting 100 miles south of Tulagi with a covering force of cruisers and destroyers. _ Two mornings later, scout-bombers sighted a Japanese carrier-cruiser force, about 180 miles north of the U.S. force. Attacking U.S. pilots soon...
Midway. On the afternoon of June 3, Navy patrol planes sighted a Japanese fleet, in two forces, some 600 miles west of Midway: a striking force of four carriers, three battleships, many cruisers and destroyers; a supporting force of one carrier, several cruisers and destroyers, troop transportsקn all, about 30 Jap ships...
...Germans. To the south, where the Russians had failed to take Kharkov, Marshal Semion Timoshenko's forces tightened their hold on positions very near the city. But holding on was all they attempted last week. In the Baltic, at Leningrad's rear, Russian dive-bombers spotted Nazi troop convoys on the move. The Russians said that they sank nine German transports...
...sleepers, 1,000 diners and club cars, the Pullman Co. has regularly set aside 1,500 cars for troop transport. On peak days the Army had used as many as 2,900 cars-113,000 men, 39 to a car. As of last week, the company figured that its cars in use were occupied 50-50 by civilians and the military. Civilians can still get their lowers if they do a little planning ahead, but when the pinch comes Army & Navy will push civilians right out of the flossiest streamliners. Says the Pullman Co.: "Every...