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...Star's admonition indicated that the Red Army Command was well aware of its big chance. If the German tide broke against the mountains, Russia would have salvaged something from this year's fighting. Baku, would yield some 13,000,000 barrels of oil monthly. There would be no direct shipping route to the main Red Army, but there would still be a waterway up the Caspian to the Ural River, another across the Caspian to the Krasnovodsk terminus of the Turk-Sib railway, which loops northward through Central Asia to Samara and the Middle Volga...
...night of August 17, when the Marines landed on Makin Island, was dark and rainy. The surf was high. Captain James N. M. Davis of Evanston, Ill. lost his pants in the waves. Major James Roosevelt of Washington, second in command to Lieut. Colonel Evans F. Carlson, cut his left index finger on a piece of coral. But the Marines, their faces and hands daubed green to blend with the foliage, all got ashore...
What caused this was not the 1,000-plane-a-night potential with which Anglo-U.S. air power may some day cripple the German war effort. Bomber Commanders Air Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris and Major General Carl Spaatz were doing what they could with what they had-and it was no mean bomb tonnage. The R.A.F. Bomber Command threw its big punches at night. It hurled a great 600-plane raid at Kassel (locomotives, aircraft, engines), ranged 900 miles northeast to Gdynia to strike at submarines under repair. Another night it was over Nürnberg (diesel engines...
France, however, was another story. As it had during many months of facile prophecy, the democratic world looked to France to provide the first mighty upset to Hitler's calculations. Did not France's spruce, civilized generals, packed with the lore of St. Cyr. command the smartest army in the world? Was it not based on the impregnable subterranean bastions of the Maginot Line? Furthermore, in these early days of September 1939, the Maginot Line was widely regarded, not as a defensive masterpiece alone, but also as an ideal point of departure for an invasion of Germany. Amateur...
...these facts have led many experts to the same conclusion: the crippling of Germany by a concentrated air attack is practicable provided the air attack is on a great scale. An outstanding summation came last spring from Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, present head of the R.A.F. Bomber Command...