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...Salerno? When Lieut. General Mark Wayne Clark's troops landed at Salerno, the troops of the Eighth Army had been in Italy for six days. They held about 750 sq. mi, of Italy's Calabrian peninsula and they were moving steadily northward and eastward. The British V Corps was about to take the port of Taranto, secure the lower Adriatic coast. German mines and booby traps delayed these troops, but the delays were not serious. Holding southern Calabria and moving into Apulia, the British held very little of Italy. But that little was secure, it was open...
...Boulogne, the port of northern France chosen for a pre-invasion test last week, the Germans are only 200 mi. from the Reich. For all military purposes, Belgium, The Netherlands and the Channel coast of France are walls of the inner fortress. On that coast last week, not a Nazi gun spoke when a British troop convoy hove within sight and range. Airmen sweeping northwestern France got the impression that both ground and aerial defenses were astoundingly weak; London heard that the Germans had withdrawn 13 of their 34 divisions from western France and the Lowlands. Either the Nazis...
Japan flinched last week under the second U.S. raid on Paramoshiri in the Kuril Islands, 1,500 mi. from Tokyo...
...Miles to Balikpapan. In the Southwest Pacific, 6-245 flew the distance from Boston to Kansas City (1,300 mi.) and back in a blow against a Jap equivalent of Ploesti-the oil depot of Balikpapan in Borneo. They destroyed at least seven oil reservoirs. All the raiders returned to their Australian bases...
...Hamburg, 800 planes were used. They required 100,000 ground personnel and 40 to 60 airfields per raid. Lost were 88 bombers and 600 to 700 men. Estimated cost of lost planes and crews: $74,000,000. Dead were unknown thousands of Hamburg residents. Destroyed were seven sq. mi. of city (including 90% of the vital harbor area...