Word: eyewitnesser
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When the Sun Rises. In Germany, the facts were beyond concealment. Said an eyewitness report from the Eastern Front in the Berliner Lokalanzeiger:
U.S. flyers in Britain related grim eyewitness accounts of the latest Nazi "secret weapon," the plane-fired rocket. During Oct. 14th's Fortress smash at the Schweinfurt ball-bearing works, Nazi fighters, armed with the new projectiles, soared to the attack in "layers" of 60 planes each. Said Colonel...
TIME Correspondent Duncan Norton-Taylor, on the bridge of another U.S. ship, was an eyewitness. He cabled: "Five of their ships died in our first onslaught. Others spoke back . . . but soon it was plain they were depending more heavily on another weapon. The frantic enemy was firing torpedo spreads."
The Record. The first Teutonic conqueror of Rome was the ferocious Alaric. In August 410, he and his horde of Goths and Huns stood before the city that St. Jerome called the "clearest light of the universe." Once Rome's terror-shaken citizens had bought off the barbarian with...
Bombing Miracles. Pipe-smoking Arizona-born Dan De Luce, 32, worked a 48-hour week in A.P.'s Los Angeles bureau while attending University of California at Los Angeles. He graduated (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1934, soon set out on the kind of career newsmen dream about. He was...