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Experience under raids taught London wardens to place the strap of the helmet behind the head rather than under the chin, Mrs. DeRoth said. "That way, the blast of a bomb isn't as likely to break your neck...
...invader went to work on Corregidor at once. From mass flights (which may have come from the U.S.'s Nichols Field, only ten minutes away) he began to bomb. There were 60 planes in the 'first attack, 21 in the second, 52 in the third. Standing to their guns, under Corregidor's spectacled, coast artilleryman commander, Major General George F. Moore, anti-aircraft men knocked 15 into the Bay, sent others away limping...
Last week Pilot Iinuma, still fit as a fiddle at 28, had a job of another kind to do. This time his mission was to bomb the British in Malaya. This time he was greeted by R.A.F. pilots, who paid their tribute in lead. Their bullets found Pilot Iinuma, wounded him mortally. As one last supreme test of his endurance, he managed to fly his plane back to its base. Then he died...
Peverley's collection, which will be on display for about ten days, includes a German parachute, a blood-stained gunner's pad, two land mines, and several bombs, including an incendiary. One of the bombs has a "howler" attachment, which causes the bomb to "scream" when it falls...
...city the Japanese chose to bomb was completely defenseless. Its streets were bare of uniformed soldiers, tanks, army trucks. Barracks and military headquarters were empty. Day before Japanese planes had scouted it, had met no antiaircraft fire. General Douglas MacArthur had kept his word: Manila was protected only by the international law of "the open city...