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Seemingly endless streams of U.S. and British medium bombers, protected by snarling fighters, whipped across the Channel from rain-soaked English airfields. In one 36-hour period, 4,000 Allied planes dropped their bombloads, came back without a single loss in combat. Some formations took 45 minutes to pass over Dover. Window-jarring explosions swept across the narrow waters. For the first time since the Eighth Air Force and the R.A.F. staged a practice preliminary around Boulonge (TIME, Sept. 20), heavy day and night bombers shifted from the strategic assault on Germany to tactical assault on the invasion coast...
...Medium bombers and fighters baited the Luftwaffe's coastal fields. But few German fighters appeared: in the five days, the Allies lost only 14 fighters, one bomber...
...were surprised. Their fortifications had been softened by 3,500 tons of bombs dumped on the Cape Gloucester area in almost daily raids since Dec. 1-the most sustained aerial attack of the Southwest Pacific war. Too late to hinder the American landing, the enemy sent over strongly escorted medium and dive bombers. At a cost of 61 planes, the Jap air arm sank one U.S. ship, damaged three others, shot down seven U.S. planes...
...Literary Rangers, they hinted they would do, attacked with a poison in the form of a colloidal suspension carried in an alcoholic medium. It has a faint odor of mustard gas; but that characteristic odor is masked by a heavy scent of Chanel...
...move is more than an attempt to outguess Alcoa postwar strategy. The U.S. now has so much aluminum that WPB's C. E. Wilson recently said "it is running out of our ears". But the fact is that the U.S. will exhaust its high and medium-grade bauxite deposits (chiefly in Arkansas) in three years. It must then perfect a commercial process for utilizing low-grade bauxite (Alcoa claims to be trying out such a process now) or rely completely on bauxite imports, mainly from British and Dutch Guiana. This would mean that the U.S. might become a have...