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Radar was chiefly responsible for defeating the U-boat and the buzz-bomb. The British say that radar and 300 R.A.F. pilots won the Battle of Britain. It was a vital aid to airmen and paratroopers over Normandy on cloudy Dday, and to the U.S. Navy in sinking the Japanese fleet. Radar opened the roof of Hitler's Europe for the day-&-night, all-weather body punching that crippled the Wehrmacht-and it lifted the Nipponese...
...sign in Egyptian French and English that John Phillips brought home Cairo: "Guests of the hotel as well s officers of His Majesty's Forces are requested to refrain from abusing the privilege of the lifts" -and souvenirs that are pretty grim, like the fragments of a buzz-bomb that landed almost on the doorstep of the chief of the MARCH OF TIME's London office...
...small but very important anniversary passed almost unnoticed amidst the world's preoccupation with the problems of peace in Europe. One year ago last week the first three buzz-bombs fell on England. They injured 52 people, killed eight. They meant that Britain in a military (and hence in a political) sense had almost ceased to be an island, that the North Sea, Dover Strait and the English Channel, which for centuries had served England "in the office of a wall, or as a moat defensive to a house," had for purpose of war shriveled to a trickle. Henceforth...
...reports were true that the Nazis had already blueprinted an explosive rocket with a 3,000-mile trajectory, Britain's first three buzz-bombs also shattered another historic isolation-that of the U.S.-more effectively than any possible barrage of political argument...
...Japs would throw into the continuing battle off Okinawa, and into any other operations in the islands, every available aircraft. To the strength of the Kamikaze Corps was already added that of the Jinrai (piloted buzz-bombs) and the Giretsu (airborne saboteurs). Ozawa would go further: he would take surface ships, rig them for self-destruction, then -if the Kamikaze squadrons could blast a way through the "picket line" (outer naval screen)-he would send the ships in to try "body-crashing" tactics against major U.S. fleet units...