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...junctions, destroyed bridges. Some of them made contact later with ground troops. Some of them, the Germans claimed, were annihilated. The Old Ladies. It was at 5:35 a.m. that morning that the Allied armada had begun to pour its fire onto the French coast, where brightly colored German ack-ack was streaking the morning sky. In the fleet were old ladies like the Arkansas, belching with twelve 12-in. guns, the Texas and the Nevada, each with ten 14-inchers; the British Warspite, veteran of Jutland, the new British Black Prince, the British monitor Erebus. Closer in shore stood...
...Another, which was repeated over & over again by U.S. networks, had everything. It was an account of the Nazi bombing of the U.S. flagship (probably a cruiser) Hicks was aboard during the Channel crossing. His calm description of the scene was accompanied by the sound of the ship's ack-ack guns, the gunfire from nearby ships,'the calling of all hands to General Quarters, the excited comments of the gun crew making their first kill, the hurt shriek of a wounded German plane diving toward the worried waters of the Channel. Excerpts...
...darkness has come on us. These planes you hear overhead are the motors of the Nazis coming and going in the cloudy sky. . . . [Deep boom']. . . . That was a bomb hit. Another one! Fire bursts and the flak and streamers going out in a diagonal slant (loud crash of ack-ack) right over our head. . . . Flares are coming down now. You can hear the machine gunning. . . . Here's heavy ack-ack now [loud firing and muffled shouts of crew']. . . . Here we go again! Another plane has come over (roar of motors). . . . The cruiser right alongside us is pouring it up (sound...
...worse than none. The bombers that did go into action caught a surprised enemy off guard, shocked him and punished him. But the full pace of attack could not be maintained. The enemy learned how to defend himself. He revised his plane production, developed new tactics, improved his ack-ack barrage, shifted the weight of his air strength westward...
...truth. Last Aug. 5 she announced that U.S. forces would land on Kiska on Aug. 17. The landing was Aug. 15. Her broadcasts almost-never exaggerate U.S. losses. She has built a reputation on accurate broadcasts like the following: "Well, you boys in Moresby, how did you like that ack-ack last night over Rabaul? Your communique didn't say anything about losing those two Fortresses, did it? But you fellows know, don't you? You know what did not come back...