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...massed bugles of the German and Italian propaganda band last week played louder & louder their new tune: Britain would be hard to invade, the "new tactic" of the Axis was to bomb out its arteries, starve out its defenders...
...growing shortage of destroyers. Far to the north, above Ireland, German bombers attacked a convoy that had been sent around that way because the British had mined St. George's Channel between Eire and Wales. Messerschmitt fighters accompanying Nazi bombers to Britain started carrying one medium-sized bomb apiece. Everything that flew over Britain now had something to leave there. The Nazi High Command claimed that its submarines, motor torpedo boats, bombers sank more than 200,000 tons of British ships during the week, including the destroyers Brazen and Wren (both admitted...
...British troops and a sprinkling of refugee women & children for evacuation to England. Nine Stukas dived on her, three at a time. The first two waves missed. The third connected, but none of the three planes came out of its dive. All crashed into the sea. One bomb went down the Lancastrians funnel. The liner heeled over, trapping hundreds of victims below decks. The water was filled with floundering survivors when the other planes returned, savagely machine-gunning lifeboats, rafts and swimmers. Fuel oil covered the water so the Stukas dropped incendiary bombs, set the entire scene ablaze. Dead: more...
...That was a bomb. The sky is absolutely patterned with bursts of antiaircraft fire and the sea is covered with smoke. Parachuters? No, I think they're sea gulls. Oh, we've just hit a Messerschmitt! Oh, that was beautiful! He's coming right down. You hear those crowds...
...hours. For that American Export relied on three four-motored Vought-Sikorsky 8-443 to be delivered by United Aircraft Corp. eleven, 14 and 16 months from now. Carbon copies of the U. S. Navy's new long-range bombers (with mail compartments substituted for bomb racks), the 175-m.p.h. (cruising speed) S-44s will carry 16 passengers, a crew of eleven, and 2,300 pounds of mail & express for 3.600 miles without a stop. Two avid watchers of their future performance will be the Navy and Pan Am, which itself will run non-stop New York-Lisbon service...