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...bloodthirsty, but let us be realistic and merciless until the end....Let us not hamper our military and naval leaders by sentimentality if they bomb the cities of Japan in order to win this...
...Though men are wanted (for air-raid wardens, bomb squads, etc.) the big need is for able women. OCD estimated that it could use 500,000 women for home nursing, another 100,000 for nurses' aides. Some 300,000 women are wanted to take charge of OCD's nutrition program, 100,000 more to look after school lunches...
Incoming passengers on the American liner watched the planes swoop down over Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field, commended the U.S. Navy's thoughtfulness in staging a big-scale war game on Sunday morning. An American automobile salesman, en route to Tientsin, gawked admiringly as a bomb whooshed into the harbor a scant 100 yards away: "Boy! What if that had been a real one?" The perspiring ship's officer who finally broke the bad news flubbed his lines: "It seems there's a state of undeclared war between Honolulu and the United States...
...crew fell before a strafing attack. The lone remaining bluejacket took over: three times he grabbed a shell from the fuse pot, placed it in the tray, dashed to the other side of the gun, rammed it home, jumped into the pointer's seat and fired. A terrific bomb blast finally carried him over the side. He was rescued...
Ellen Fletcher took Britain's latest and greatest war with the calmness of the very old. She had lived to see her country at war with the Russians (1854), the Boers (1898), the Germans, Austrians and Turks (1914), and then the Germans again. When a bomb fell near her home last winter, she told friends: "This young fellow Hitler isn't going to frighten me," and went on knitting for soldiers and listening to war news. Last week, still not frightened, she died...