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Next day the Jap had two more air-raid alarms, and this week he still hissed with dismay. He sacked the chief of the home command, Lieut. General Akira Muto, and he filled the air with illogical or contradictory blasts which only seemed to add to the magnitude of the bombers' success. Contradicting his story that only schools and hospitals had been hit, a Tokyo dispatch (via Berlin) announced that the Government would pay to rebuild the industrial plants that had been damaged. More important, he said that the raiders were twin-motored North American B-25s and that...
Optimism, For Once With Douglas MacArthur's command over all United Nations' land, sea and air forces in the Southwest Pacific finally clarified, the question became: What next? The answer, as given by the brassiest brass hats in the area...
...news for the U.S. bomber Ferrying Command, which is flying planes and supplies across Africa to the British in the Middle East and India (see map). A Vichy attack on Free French bases in French Equatorial Africa might threaten that supply line in a dozen places...
...Anglo-American attempt to set up a second front in the West. News came last week that Germany's brilliant Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt, hero of the Nazi drive into the Ukraine, had been shifted to the Western Front, whether for offense or defense, and placed in command of Germany's coastal forces from Norway's far North Cape to Hendaye on the Spanish border...
...President Cowling surveyed his faculty for possible military use fulness, struck a surprisingly rich vein : e.g., Astronomer Edward A. Fath, who turned out to be one of the foremost U.S. experts in celestial navigation; Geographer Laurence McKinley Gould, a top-notch map man and navigator who was second in command of Admiral Byrd's first Ant arctic expedition; Physicist Charles...