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They had seen sections that looked like a Florida country club, winding gravel roads, fine homes. They had encountered terrific ack-ack. One "layout" was covered with "strips, taxiways, and ships." But most important, they had counted 25 ships, among them two carriers. They had pictures to prove...
...Pulkovo Hills and south Oranienbaum, the Germans fought their hardest: their trenches were deep, mine fields vast, artillery plentiful. Now little was left of these defenses, and the snowy road across the hills was blotched with dark, ragged craters. Over the rear German positions, pounded by Russian bombers, black ack-ack puffs spotted the milky...
Hospital Bound. Charles, leading a strafing attack over the nearby Marshalls, ran into ack-ack. Windshield and instrument panel exploded and more than 200 particles of glass and metal were driven into his face and body. Blinded in one eye and drenched with blood, Charles made a perfect landing on his carrier...
...somehow slipped through the screen of overwhelming Allied air superiority headed for the harbor, studded with ships of a newly arrived convoy. Two ammunition vessels blew up, setting their neighbors ablaze. From other bombed ships thick, pitch-black smoke began to wallow towards the blue sky. Here and there ack-ack guns barked angrily-too late...
...Turning Point. Next morning before dawn a lone Jap plane came over, shied away as U.S. ships put up a terrific ack-ack barrage. Soon after the first light the 2nd Division's reserves made for shore. From the beachhead it was a sickening sight...