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...radios, when a voice called us and said that a shell had landed squarely in the middle of the culvert we had just left. The Dawn Attack. We sort of fitfully dozed for a while. At 5 o'clock the snapping of rifle bullets coming across our slope woke me and I heard Chuck talking to Morehouse on the phone...
...morning Operations sent around men, woke all crews. After their breakfast they were all carried in many trucks to have their briefing. The target was to be Messina, Sicily's ferry terminus. The huge briefings broke into small briefings, in which formations were assigned, navigational data set out and targets defined...
...Government was not smart enough to go to the most popular U.S. artist for propaganda purposes. Rockwell had to go to the Government. One morning not long after Roosevelt and Churchill thought up the subject of a lifetime for him-the Four Freedoms-Rockwell woke with a start at 3, full of ideas. He managed to stay in bed till 5; then he was up and busy with sketches. He called in Neighbor Carl Hess; Hess stood for the shy, brave young workman of Freedom of Speech. A Mrs. Harrington became the devout old woman in Freedom of Worship...
Jersey Life. In Jersey City, Mrs. Michael Fitzgerald locked up her fifth-floor apartment before going to bed, left her husband in the kitchen with a bottle. She woke later to a pounding on the door, found it was Mike. Said he: "Fell out of the kitchen window." He explained that he had encountered cradling clotheslines at the fourth, third, and second stories, and concluded: "Never missed...
Initial U-boat successes fell off when the British woke up to the fact that the submarine was still a grave menace, and escorted their convoys more heavily. But after the fall of France, when the U-boats had bases along the entire west coast of Europe, the wolf-pack system raised hob with Allied shipping. Of some 57,600,000 total deadweight tons of British shipping, U-boats sank at least 17,600,000 tons in three and a half years. Working in the Nazis' favor was the vast demand on Allied shipping for the supply of many...