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Pasadena's Rose Bowl looked like a second-hand auto park. In the chill dawn, 140 battered cars and sagging trucks huddled, piled high with furniture, bundles, gardening tools. At 6:30 a.m. they chuffed and spluttered, wheeled into line, and started rolling. Led by a goggled policeman on a motorcycle, a jeep and three command cars full of newsmen, they headed for the dark, towering mountains to the east...
...light cruisers. Then, at dusk of the second day, birds of death appeared in the sky. Five swastikaed transport planes and a Messerschmitt flew overhead, winging from the Libyan front to German bases in Crete. They had sighted the convoy, and the British knew that the next dawn would bring enemy planes and warships...
...bomb-pocked British island base of Malta, R.A.F. fighters and anti-aircraft guns downed twelve German bombers and two Messerschmitt fighters in 24 hours. A report from London that Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, who directed the devastation of Warsaw and Coventry, was now in Sicily hinted ominously that dawn-to-dusk raids were a prelude to sea-borne invasion...
...Malta on the western flank and Cyprus on the east were shields to ward off the first blows. Malta's metal was well tested. So far in World War II, Malta has had nearly 2,000 air raids and is still unconquered. Attacks last week sometimes lasted from dawn to dark, but the raid-toughened Maltese, using the caverns which honeycomb the island as air-raid shelters, carried on much as usual. Even the goats were so learned in raids that they flounced into ditches when the sirens wailed...
...dark before dawn a corporal at Fort Bragg found a bunk still occupied after reveille, yanked off the blankets, bellowed: "Get the hell out of there, boy!" Up sat Pulitzer-Prizewinning Dramatist Maxwell Anderson, who had had himself smuggled in, had got what he went for: atmosphere for a new war play...