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...advanced to the tune of cheers and applause three months before, but now there were not many people about and they no longer looked ecstatically happy, but only glum. Many, however, gave us the V sign and waved bravely. At dusk we came to a city. The buzz of the robombs was loud and clear over the hubbub of the traffic, and we saw a trail of red fire coming across the grey sky on the darkened city. It fell with a loud clatter and flames shot up and people ran hurriedly through the streets...
...like that all night. There must have been a buzz bomb or a piloted plane raid somewhere every five minutes. The next day in a jeep we saw the tail flame on one robomb overhead suddenly go out and then the big frame of the bomb dove down on us in perfect silence, an inhuman Moloch coming to devour us. We threw ourselves to the ground and it burst nearby, breaking all the windows but not hurting anyone. I went to a café where I had been the first American three months previously and was kissed and embraced...
Springtime in Darwin. Picking up fugitive flyers from Bataan and Java, including the early-famed Buzz Wagner, the Eighth and Ninth squadrons followed the Seventh northward, reaching Darwin bases in time for the big Japanese raid on April 25. In that first real baptism of fire, the Forty-niners bagged 24 Jap bombers and nine fighters without suffering a single loss. By Aug. 1, six months after arriving in Australia, they had run their score to 60, had lost only three pilots. On Aug. 12 they received a Presidential unit citation, then plunged into the battle for New Guinea...
...superhuman for our Fatherland and our Führer." After a short spell of bad weather which grounded Allied reconnaissance and attack planes, Rundstedt struck. Crack German armored and infantry divisions drove in behind massive artillery barrages. German paratroops landed behind the U.S. lines, tried to snarl communications. Buzz-bombs, rockets and a new, undescribed V-weapon came over the lines...
...more than one-third that of the U.S., had suffered as many casualties-from its armed forces alone-as had the U.S. in three years. Britain's toll: 176,081 killed, 38,275 missing, 193,788 wounded, 154,968 prisoners of war. In addition, the blitz and the buzz-bomb had taken a toll of 57,298 killed (including 7,250 children and 23,757 women), and injured 78,818 more. No question, the bloody 'eroes...