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...British army in World War II. Bomb-weary, hungry Sicilians stepped from the ruins, with cheers of relief, and cries for bread. For General Montgomery, it was another famous victory. From Catania and Paterno the Eighth thrust columns up the west and east slopes of Mt. Etna for the cleanup in Sicily...
...Cleanup. At week's end on New Georgia only a small Jap detachment at Bai-roko Harbor was still to be done in, but victorious units from Munda moved for ward to help in the job. Army engineers and Navy Seabees prepared to restore the 4,000-ft. Munda airstrip, which would bring the U.S. just within fighter-plane range of Rabaul. Eyes turned to Vila, Munda's supplementary airstrip 17 miles away, huddled against the great cone of Kolombangara. That the Japs were determined to cling to Vila was evident when they once more took the impossible...
...Allied Air Force, in its new A36 fighter-bombers, sprang a particularly nasty surprise on the enemy during the pre-invasion cleanup. An adaptation of the North American Mustang (P-51) the A36 is a 400-mile-an-hour single seater, equipped with dive brakes and wing bomb racks. It functions as a dive or glide bomber or as a low level strafing ship, specializing in such small but worthwhile targets as truck convoys, trains and power stations...
...Duce promised over & over a cleanup of black marketeers, an increase in "fundamental rations-bread, alimentary paste and fats," a closing down of "luxury hotels where certain evacuees often behave scandalously...
...Cleanup Mission. To French West Africa would go Pierre Charles Cournarie, named Governor General to succeed ex-Vichyite Pierre Boisson, who had been stanchly supported by the U.S. It was an important appointment, one which Gaullists could hail as a signal victory. As the Gaullist Commissioner of the Cameroons, able, youthful (48) Pierre Cournarie had done a model job. In West Africa, recruiting ground of the famed Senegalese troops, he could do much to clean up Vichy's traces...