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...carefully selected group of workers, children and bomb-shocked neurotics huddled wide-eyed in a dark, cold bomb vault. Noises began - sirens seeming to shriek for help, bombs and ack-ack conversing terribly...
...London air officials tallied a two-year bag of 7,170 Axis aircraft, exclusive of victories by their allies, counteracted rumors that ack-ack has bark but no bite by claiming 1,350 of these as anti-aircraft victims in France, Britain, the Middle East...
...Robert Mantell delivery and the uniform of the British lighthouse service got home last week and shed the first strong light on the Atlantic conference. Nearing the last lap of the return, the crew of the Prince of Wales knew they would fetch Winston Churchill home unharmed. All the ack-acks aboard raised a jubilant barrage. Five hundred-odd miles north of the northernmost tip of Britain's isles, their precious charge went ashore at Reykjavik, capital of Kentucky-sized Iceland...
...populace went down into Moscow's pride, the sparkling subway. Women and children slept on the platforms, men on the tracks. Above in the streets A.R.P. and fire-fighting volunteers worked enthusiastically but a little wildly-at least by London standards. All around town, crews worked searchlights and ack-ack batteries furiously but also a little wildly-at least by German accounts...
Among the tribulations of combat pilots are the flare of searchlights, the crump of bursting ack-ack shells. Another kind of flier, the duck, finds the same things just as annoying. Month ago the 198th Coast Artillery, at Camp Upton, L. I., postponed its aerial target practice because hunters complained that the firing was scaring away wild ducks. Last week the 198th fell foul of the birds again...