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Largest of these islands is also called Kwajalein. It is two and a half miles long, a third of a mile wide-about as big as Tarawa's Betio. Some 50 miles north along the beads lies Roi, 7/10 sq. mi.-just large enough for an airfield...
Last week, on the first anniversary of the vast German debacle at Stalingrad, the Red Army stood 800 mi. west of that shell-battered city. It was now only 500 mi. from Berlin...
...raids, knowing that U.S. planes will strike some day and that they are unprepared. Japanese correspondents in Berlin grimly report the German agony, to prepare their readers for the worst. (Last week German correspondents reported that 15 districts of Tokyo and eight districts in Nagoya, 2.7 sq. mi., would be evacuated in anticipation of future raids...
...Since Pearl Harbor, U.S. airmen have photographed 8,000,000 sq. mi. of the earth's surface, an area twice the size...
...submarine force (the "Porpoise Carrier") which kept Malta alive at the height of its blockade. In the Pacific, his submarine crept through the grey-green waters of the Bay of Bengal, past the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which screen the Singapore-Rangoon sea lanes, scouted the narrow (225 mi.) northern approaches of the Malacca Straits. He attacked and sank three large cargo vessels, sighted the cruiser and closed at full speed...