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...Atlantic some 300 U.S. warships of all sizes awaited Hitler's answer. One answer had already been made: into English ports limped two convoys of Lend-Lease ships. At least eight of the first convoy had been sunk in fierce battles with Nazi submarines and four-engined bomb...
Whatever the Axis plans for the Black Sea, Russia was not caught napping. Soviet bombers began pounding Rumanian ports. If it should also be necessary to bomb Bulgaria, Russia's note, next thing to a declaration of war, cleared...
...most exciting active duty was in the Shanghai hostilities of 1932, in which he commanded the Japanese forces. Here he lost his right eye, but not in battle. At a review in celebration of the Emperor's birthday a Korean patriot tossed a bomb into the grandstand. The grandstand blew up. Admiral Nomura was pocked but still alive. His first glass eye was presented to him by the Empress...
...Wookey isn't much play, it is a lot of show. It not merely makes the humorous best of British courage and obstinacy under trial. It also has a range of breath-taking sound effects, from the audible eruption of a W.C. to German bombing raids (recorded in London). It runs the gamut of the tear-jerking situations which can confront a family in wartime. And it exploits all the emotions aroused in the U.S. by the war-even to political gags at which America Firsters clap and a set (by Jo Mielziner, showing bomb-Blitzed London) which, without...
...impossible to talk or rather to be heard, but above the din can be heard the methodical thud... thud... thud as (three words censored) bombs explode about a mile distant. There is no respite from the gunfire now. Wheece... a bomb glides right over as and penetrates a lawn 500 yards away; its explosion, fortunately muffled by the soft earth, makes every house in the district reel and shudder. Bombs thud down one after the other. An incendiary bomb smacks onto our roof blinding for a moment and splashing melted metal and flame, but with the aid of a rake...