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...just before an air attack, the air mines were suspended from balloons and small parachutes by piano wire; when a plane hit the lower part of the wire, the delicately attached mine would slide down and hit the plane. The British claimed that air mines downed at least a half-dozen German planes over London during the blitz. Once a small boy found a wire lying on the ground, yanked it, blew up a house six blocks away...
Along the Isonzo, every cluster of peasant houses sported a half-dozen flags, both Italian and Yugoslav. The flags were made of silk from parachutes we had used to drop food and supplies to the Partisans when they were fighting the Germans. On every building there were red stars and signs reading: "Tukaj je Jugoslavia" (This is Yugoslavia) and "Zivjo Tito" (Long live Tito...
...Yugoslavs, Italians and Poles were here, frantically, hysterically happy. They began to kiss us, and there is nothing you can do when a lot of hysterical, unshaven, lice-bitten, half-drunk, typhus-infected men want to kiss you. Nothing at all. You cannot hit them, and besides, they all kiss you at the same time. It is no good trying to explain that you are only a correspondent. A half-dozen of them were especially happy and it turned out they were very proud: they had killed two German soldiers themselves...
...where stood the Japanese Navy? By last accounting it had five battleships, all too slow to have accompanied the Yamato in her sortie. There was little else-probably fewer than six carriers of any type, perhaps a half-dozen first-line cruisers, fewer than 20 destroyers. Gathered all together, it might add up to one not-so-fast task force-and what Japan needed now was a whole navy...
Many a U.S. state has issued cease-&-desist orders against Toronto firms; Pennsylvania has issued 33. The Michigan Securities Commission last fortnight banned a half-dozen Toronto firms from dealing in the state. Nova Scotia's Government formally warned against Toronto's "fly-by-night" stock peddlers...