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...over the place bombs were bursting in the rain. We slipped and rolled in the mud. Some of our lads did terrific work with the machetes they had used to cut through the cactus hedges. They lopped down dozens of the enemy. Then we would dive on them and crash to the ground, arms locked, trying to find their throats or get our knives working...
Flying Officer Brant Howell of Manitoba turned his Sunderland from a probable "kill" to attack a surfaced sub with his guns. The sub's deck gun fired back, When the U-boat crash-dived, Howell saw the abandoned Nazi gun crew floundering in the sea. They soon had their submarine for company. Reported Howell: "Four depth charges exploded within a few feet of the stern and the last we saw of the U-boat was six feet of the afterpart sticking out almost vertically from the water...
Seven-year-old Prince Edward, who became the Duke of Kent when his father died in a 1942 plane crash, watched with his sister Alexandra (see cut) a London parade of his mother's WRENS (Britannic WAVES). Sprucely dressed, the exquisite Marina's handsome elder son looked as though he had outgrown his interest in heaving pillows from Buckingham Palace balconies...
Slightly Dangerous (M.G.M.) is a mildly loony comedy starring Lana Turner and Robert Young. In some never-never prewar world, it reveals a small-town soda jerkess who tries every trick from feigned amnesia to the long-lost-heiress act to crash the gate to money and glamor. On her silly trail throughout is her soda-fountain boss, Robert Young, with whom she finally clinches in a motel bedroom. The dialogue of this scene is laundered white for all possible audiences. But Lana, in a costume change from her conventional sweater, still manages to undo all attempts at censorship...
This was a disappointment. People at home had had high hopes for General Patton. They had thought he might crash through to the sea behind Rommel, cut him off and, with the British, drive the Fox to ground in the south once...