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Iran is ancient Persia, at the upper entrance to the bridge. It is also, at this interim stage, the one field where Russian and British armies are in full collaboration. The British and Russians occupied Iran last year, deposed its fanatically independent Shah, set up a pro-Anglo-Russian rule, restored the name Persia. U.S. military men are also in Persia, but they are not yet an army. They are engineers, airmen, quartermasters, building roads and ports, forwarding military supplies to Russia over its Caspian routes. Last week the appearance at Teheran of a new U.S. figure-Colonel H. Norman...
...recently. But Sir Henry Maitland Wilson was Wavell's favorite; the separation of Sir Henry's command from that of General Alexander in Egypt and Syria had long been General Wavell's idea. London expected to hear more of Wavell, and of his plans for close Anglo-American contact with the Russians...
What caused this was not the 1,000-plane-a-night potential with which Anglo-U.S. air power may some day cripple the German war effort. Bomber Commanders Air Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris and Major General Carl Spaatz were doing what they could with what they had-and it was no mean bomb tonnage. The R.A.F. Bomber Command threw its big punches at night. It hurled a great 600-plane raid at Kassel (locomotives, aircraft, engines), ranged 900 miles northeast to Gdynia to strike at submarines under repair. Another night it was over Nürnberg (diesel engines...
...Britain possess a weapon that may open the road to victory. The weapon is combined Anglo-American air power...
TIME herewith summarizes, in terms that any one can understand, the elements of an all-out air offensive against Germany. Perhaps a concentration of Anglo-American air power, on the scale assumed in this summary, cannot be achieved this year; some authorities say it can be, others say it cannot. But, if it can be done, then the following pages give a clear statement of why it should be done, and of how it will work. Through no other course can American mass production strike so quickly so hard a blow at the actual heart of the enemy. An authority...