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...tail was a 19-year-old gunner. When he heard the crash he made for the escape hatch. It was jammed. He tried to get through the rear window: too small. Long minutes later, Belgian peasants saw the tailpiece sail to earth. They picked the unconscious gunner from the wreck, got him to a hospital...
...Hitler's eleventh-hour thoughts on the completeness of his failure. His total war against non-German mankind was ending in total defeat. Around him, the Third Reich, which was to last 1,000 years, sank to embers as the flames fused over its gutted cities. The historic crash of what had been Europe's most formidable state was audible in the shrieks of dying men and the point-blank artillery fire against its buckling buildings...
...Pacific amphibious operation, the Navy had suffered more casualties than the troop units it had landed for battle. The reason: intense and repeated Jap air attacks on the swarms of ships off Okinawa. The chief method of attack: the Japs' frantic, fanatic Kamikaze Corps' suicide crash dives on U.S. ships (TIME, April...
With a rainy spell wiping out all sports encounters during the past few days. Coach Floyd Stahl's Varsity nine lay idle Wednesday while chief "Crash" Davis's Jayvees made a futile trip to Andover. Both games were cancelled without any future date set for delaying them, but they probably will be rescheduled later, declared Carroll F. Getchell, acting director of the Harvard Athletic Association, yesterday...
...reference left no doubt that the Navy now recognizes these banzai air charges as a tactical policy, a desperate attempt to halt the U.S. fleet's advances on the home islands. It was also clear that the Navy would not have permitted correspondents to tell of crash dives if it had not found ways to make them mainly ineffective...