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...Behind was a man-sized hole leading to a super-secret concrete shelter, far underground and 500 meters away. Another tunnel connected the shelter with an underground trolley line. Food scraps in the shelter indicated that from six to twelve people had stayed there as late as May 9, V-E day plus...
...hunt had covered 30,000,000 square miles of ocean to fight a maximum German fleet of 450 submarines. The German attack peak was in 1942-43, but by spring of 1943 the defense had its fo'c'sle head above water. By V-E day the U.S. had 126 sure submarine kills and had escorted 16,760 ships across the Atlantic...
...Times hastened to explain that, in dropping "Old and True" right after V-E day it had neither forgotten nor undervalued the Japanese war. It merely meant, said the Times, that "the course of the struggle in the East is not to be easily or aptly annotated from the experience of the West...
Because of its determined, efficient underground work, the church was able to pop up on V-E day with the reins all ready in its hands. It had plans ready for the reconstruction of destroyed or damaged churches, had raised 1,000,000 kroner ($200,000) to start a new church newspaper (the first issue will be published June 1) and had kept close tabs on clergymen who had betrayed the church in its hour of need. Bishop Berggrav's first official act last week was to suspend 50 quisling pastors...
...might have made is the work of Norman Corwin, Columbia's boy wonder, whose radio scripts draw down ecstatic fan mail, are frequently rebroadcast, even attain the comparative immortality of book publication (13 by Corwin; More by Corwin). Last week Corwin did it again. His full-hour V-E day program, On a Note of Triumph, had a Sunday repeat performance, and in book form, without too much ballyhoo, was selling so fast that Publishers Simon & Schuster rushed out a second printing of 25,000 copies...