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Then "the final rocket went up, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. ... It soared twice as high as any they had had before; and the moment it had burst, Mrs. Miniver remembered. 'Brightness falls from the air'-that was it! The sparks from the rocket...
One sweltering night last week some 200 Senators and Representatives assembled in secrecy in the Caucus room of the Old House Office Building. In the darkness a film unreeled-without titles, without voices, with few sound effects. The Congressmen saw Nazi tanks push against concrete tank barriers, push them over...
A British heavy cruiser and the aircraft carrier Hermes were ordered to immobilize, by persuasion or force, the one remaining capital ship of France's Navy not already knocked out or taken over by Britain. Mightiest Frenchman of them all, the brand-new, 35,000-ton Battleship Richelieu, mounting...
With a volunteer crew, Bristowe entered a twin-motored ship's launch. Starting far offshore, it purred in quietly to the steel harbor net, which it passed over safely. Through the thick darkness Commander Bristowe felt his way undetected to the looming bulk of the Richelieu, and around under...
The German press whipped itself up to find extravagant titles, came through with "Lord of Battle," "Victor of 1940 and Victor over 1918," "Rouser out of Stupor," "Leader from Darkness into Light," "Triumphator."