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...gingerly as they lit up again, Britons relaxed from their V-2 strain. The stratosphere siege had lasted seven months, and the noiseless rockets had worn Londoners' nerves thin. The V-2s started dropping the day after Prime Minister Winston Churchill's son-in-law, Minister of Works Duncan Sandys, announced that V-1 was licked. Before they stopped coming on March 27, 1,050 rockets had killed 2,754 people, seriously injured 6,523, damaged an untold number of buildings (including a million-dollar cinema at Marble Arch). Last week Churchill was asked in Parliament...
Allied ordnance experts sped to Bromskirchen, probed V-2's innards, gave a superficial description which confirmed the facts already gleaned from exploded V-2s: it is 45 feet long (minus its explosive head), six to seven feet in diameter at the middle, tapered at head and tail; it has a four-foot compartment filled with radio dials and gadgets by which its flight is directed. The methodical Germans had carefully packed a twelve-page manual of instructions with each giant rocket...
...bomb routes, sirens wail frequently, as the noisy V-1s pass overhead. But no sirens sound in Antwerp, the bombs' principal target. In Antwerp men never leave the ack-ack guns, the city's defense against the V-1s. Against the faster-than-sound V-2s, there is no defense...
...TACA de Colombia will be a TACA affiliate, owned 45% by the parent company and 55% by Colombians. Operating in the pack-mule fashion that made it in 1942 the world's No. 1 freight flyer, the Yerex airline will pit two Douglas DC-2½s (DC-2s with DC-3 wings, double doors and reinforced bottoms) and a twin-engine Beechcraft against Pan Am's deluxe equipment. If it needs more money and talent than it has, TACA can draw from big, rich Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., which owns 29% of TACA stock...
...Rocket Coast. Hollanders on liberated Walcheren island told of the German's careful guarding of V-2 launchings; the enemy hustled all civilians indoors when rockets were brought to the island on long, covered truck trailers. Related the Dutch: sometimes the V-2s soared in half-circles before being sent away...