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...Philippines were ready. For days before the war began, the guns had been manned and the planes had stood alert. The Philippines were still ready. After a week of heavy bombing, of fierce scraps on Luzon beachheads, of dogfights among black bursts of ack-ack, of desperate aerial assaults to hold Japanese ships off the coast, the Philippines stood fast...
...skill that popped the eyes of their opposite numbers from the U.S. One army flight of three jumped 20 Jap planes, knocked out three, chased the rest, picked up a straggler on the way home and sent him down in flames. A bombing flight lumbered serenely through heavy ack-ack fire to unload on warships, then kicked off altitude and strafed a landing party on the beach...
...seven, so that bomb-wary patrons might hurry to inadequate shelters. Taxi drivers received half-crown tips for venturing out in the blitz. Patrons in bathrobes slumped about the lounges of swank hotels. Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast. The Zoo's lone emu shuddered when the ack-acks whammed...
...last week Vichy's loud pretense that there are no Nazis at Dakar had been blown higher than an ack-ack barrage. Home from Africa, huge New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Hiram Blauvelt reported that the Nazis, operating from Dakar, had won a smashing victory in the Battle of the Atlantic...
Boeing Aircraft Co. last week test-flew its new B-17E bomber, a better-armed, slicker version of the Flying Fortress (B-17Ds) with which the R.A.F. is now bombing Europe from heights over 30,000 feet-too high to be hit by ack-ack, or to be reached by most German pursuit planes...