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Said he: "It's strictly fun. . . . I like to knock the enemy down and the only question that ever flashed across my mind is whether he'll be blown or fried" (exploded in mid-air or burned...
Unless you're a timeaddict or have let Henry Luce spoil your fun with his picture mag, you'll find Paramount's MacMurray-Stanwyck-Edward G. Robinson thriller good and exciting entertainment, although you may be able to knock a few dents in the plot. James M. Cain writes tough, sharp prose, and judging from "Double Indemnity," his stuff makes even better moviegoing than reading...
Before the last push began, the German positions were methodically bombed for 80 minutes. A group of bombers attacked every five minutes by the clock. Between assaults, fighter-bombers swooped in to knock out pinpoint targets. Nazi fighters jumped the first group of bombers. They were lumped themselves by escort fighters, and for 15 minutes the air was full of swirling dogfights. Then the Nazi ships fled, and stayed away...
...bombing, the Allies did their best to knock down the robot-launching platforms around Calais. When the invasion troops closing on Cherbourg captured two platforms almost intact, British experts moved in at once to study them. However, the platforms were heavily camouflaged, often tucked away in the corners of woods. Others may have been dug into cliffs in bombproof positions...
...enemy's plan had long been apparent. It was to secure the Peiping-Hankow-Canton railroad, firmly establish the Empire's equivocal hold on southeast China east of the railroad, knock out U.S. air bases there, and try to make the coast impregnable to U.S. attack. It was also to supplement sea supply lanes under fire from Chennault and American naval attack. But only in the last four weeks had the enemy decisively written his plan in military action...