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Five minutes after the first two, another lone bomber power-dived in over List from due west. The German batteries set up such a fierce yammering that the newcomer released only two bombs before whirling back over the North Sea. But the whole length of Sylt-the seaplane base down at Westernland, the anti-aircraft towers on the Hindenburg Damm (causeway) connecting the island umbilically with the mainland, and the seaplane base at Hörnum on the southeast tip 20 miles away-began thudding and crackling with bomb and gun explosions. For ten minutes more Herr Schmidt watched...
...first storks returned to Belfort and other birds started taking mates, the wings of war rustled more and more ominously. Scouting planes from both sides of the Maginot-Siegfried stalemate soared over the enemy's interior now in massed squadrons instead of singly. Over the North Sea, Nazi bombers dived with increasing fury and frequency on Allied merchant convoys and British trawlermen. The crew of a Dornier bomber flying inside the Belgian line on the Luxembourg border felt so springlike when three Belgian patrol planes came up to chase them away that they opened fire, sent the Belgian squadron...
This week a Nazi bomber swooped down on the British India passenger steamer Domala, packed with Lascar refugees who had been interned in Germany, dropped three bombs squarely on her decks. With the bomber circling overhead and (so said the survivors) spitting machine gun bullets, passengers and sailors who had not been killed by the bombs began dropping into the water, many to drown. Dutch and British freighters rescued 189 of the 295 aboard the Domala, which was later towed to port. The 106 who died made up the war's second largest noncombatant casualty list (Athenia, 112, Simon...
...Royal Air Force has collaborated with Mr. Korda in making his Winged Lion look both authentic and terrifying. Thus we are initiated into all the "secrets" of air defense which the Government deems wise to publicize, and we are even allowed to share the crammed quarters of a bomber with the handsome young fellows who fight for "liberty, truth, and beauty." Doubtless, even the most die-hard pacifist will get a vicarious thrill out of dog-fights in the air and a spectacular bombardment of German battleships at Kiel. "The Lion Has Wings" interests only insofar...
...They remembered that he lad visited the U. S. twice before (in 1933 and 1937), that his greatest feat had been outroughing Tony Galento in a six-round preliminary bout on the Braddock-Louis championship card in June 1937. That he would not last four rounds against the Brown Bomber was the general prediction. Some openly complained that he had no right in the same ring with Louis, that his best punch could hardly knock down Joe's little sister Eulalie...