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...Washington, however, informed Chinese knew that no bombers had been promised China. Desperately the Chinese argued: for four years the Japanese had raked Chinese civilians with death and fire; industrial Japan is ripe for the killing; one bomber to China is the equal of ten to Britain and every bombing of Japan would make the backdoor of the British Empire that much more secure. Urgent too was the Chinese need for transport planes to haul quickly needed vital materials from an Indian railhead to interior points. But the British out-begged them...
...material were being rushed to Guam for construction of a base only 1,500 miles from Yokohama. At Wake, new runways began to ring the lagoon. On Midway Islands, one runway was complete and ready for planes, one enormous hangar sparkled new in the sun. Soon a great bomber runway would be casting up far-sweeping silver-winged planes that could reach the heart of Japan...
...evade death by the Nazis as well as threatened extradition to Germany to stand trial for the alleged crime. At film's end, with Britain at war, the hunter, armed with another sporting rifle, returns for the kill. As he parachutes to German earth from a British bomber an off-screen voice warns that it may take weeks, months, years, but the hunter will get his game...
...fight with the 1,800-odd combat planes it has. Today the fleets have their full complements of men and planes. That is, each of Admiral Towers' six carriers has a squadron of fighters, two squadrons of scouts, one squadron of torpedo planes (which can also serve as bombers, carry either an 1,800-lb. torpedo or three 500-lb. bombs). Battleships and cruisers have their normal numbers of catapulted scout observation and bomber planes...
...entered via Turkey under bogus passports as refugee Rumanian Jews, their suitcases marked with large Js. At Aleppo, German officers were strutting about in shorts, apparently made up as sportsmen. It seemed there they were also miming French pilots. A group of French fighters which brought down a British bomber were said to have been Nazi-manned...