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...Three dud shells lie in what must have been a garden. A dud bomb is buried in the roadside mud. The front half of an armored car is parked in the shadow of what was once a house. A bent, bullet-riddled fragment of what had been a tank lies near a dirt-caked helmet. The helmet looks like a tortoise's back: it smells sour...
Although many Navy men still doubt its value, the airship can do some things an airplane can't. It can run at low speed, or stop dead, hover over a suspected subsea object, take dead aim with bomb or depth charge from a stationary platform. From its car, in clear weather, the eight-man crew of a modern blimp once spotted a submarine 90 feet below the surface. Crews from Lakehurst daily practice following sharks and whales, occasionally give them a practice bomb. Other blimp virtues: they can stay in the air about 50 hours, can follow...
...same: to get the U.S. public behind a program designed to build more ships than German U-boats can sink. Said Franklin Roosevelt in a recorded speech broadcast at each yard: "We propose, to the best of our ability, to protect them from torpedo, from shell or from bomb...
...hatted policemen in the squad car flashed a radio call. In a few minutes the square was full of the businesslike bustle of men going into action. First they put out the incendiaries, squirting chemicals on them and flinging sand. The bomb-removal squad swung picks to dig up the still-unexploded bombs and hauled them away. The decontamination squad, dressed in rubber suits and gloves, went after the gas bombs, sprinkling chloride of lime everywhere...
...movie fans might object that amid the highly significant events which the picture portrays, the success or failure of Tyrone Power's blackout pursuit and courtship of Betty Grable doesn't seem to make a lot of difference to anybody. Such a criticism is not without its point; this bomb-ridden little romance does trot merrily along through a couple of air-raids and an artillery barrage or two, but it doesn't seriously impair the effectiveness of the film's stronger features...