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Bombs Away. For a moment no fighters were attacking. There had been no time to watch France pass below us. As I glanced out now, there was Paris, a pale gold pattern in the clear morning light, the Eiffel Tower, the Champs Elysées, the Seine glinting silver. Flak seemed to be mushrooming up from nowhere. In a moment Le Bourget was in sight. Johnny started fiddling with the release. As Johnny quietly said: "Bombs away," a cluster dropped from the Fortress close beside us. The Forts moved too fast for us to see the bombs hit, but photographs...
AMGOT. Amid this human scene, in the fraction of Sicily first conquered, the British and U.S. Armies last week set up AMGOT-"The Allied Military Government of Occupied Territory." Here, presumably, was the pattern of military government to be applied elsewhere as Axis territory is taken. From the U.S. Army's School of Military Government at Charlottesville, Va., and from the older civil affairs service of the British Army, scores of officers had come to rule as long as Sicily was a military theater...
...pattern grew plainer. Japan was directing every facet of psychological warfare toward the detachment of India from the United Nations' camp. Since March the Jap has been dangling pseudo-independence before one unit after another in her Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Nanking was first. Burma and the Philippines heard about their good luck in June. This month Thailand received chunks of territory transferred from the Malay States as an earnest of better things to come (TIME, July 12). With every move, Tokyo Radio beamed long accounts, in English, at India...
...time had come to weld the islands of the Caribbean into an economic team. He added quickly that sovereignty would remain unchanged, suggested instead an international trusteeship for which the new Anglo-American Caribbean Commission might serve as a model, implied that if the experiment was a success the pattern might replace the battered mandate system throughout the colonial world. He spoke of studies going on to extend the franchise, overhaul the social and educational system, lift the economic level, encourage self-sufficiency...
American, British, Canadian and South African airmen in Fortresses, Liberators, Wellingtons, Marauders, Mustangs, Spitfires and Warhawks created that impression. From North Africa, from Pantelleria, from Malta, Egypt and Libya, they flew over Sicily and Mother Italy, revealing to the enemy and to the world a perfected pattern of the new warfare...