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...Allied planes over Italy, Sardinia, Sicily and Pantelleria last week were probably harbingers of invasion. But the tempo and concentration of the attacks were achievements in themselves. Unfolding in the Mediterranean was a carefully devised, fiercely executed pattern of strategic bombing...
...South the warm sky above the Kuban was a shifting pattern of curves and smoking spirals as hundreds of German and Russian planes fought above the battle lines. Pravda reported that the wreckage of German planes littered the foothills near Novorossiisk...
...orders for their first combat mission: a reconnaissance of Formosa, which they could not attack because the U.S. Congress had not yet declared war. From the direction of Formosa, as they knew they would, some 70 Japanese bombers came over and blew Clark Field to hell with a beautiful pattern of bombs, unmolested from the air, little molested from the ground. Twenty-four Flying Fortresses had stood there: after the Japs had passed, "only five could be called airplanes any more . . . and none of them could fly. But. by pooling the five wrecks ... we could salvage in all ... three planes...
Pursue their pattern as before...
...Enemy. At 11 o'clock, it came again. The deck plates rattled as a pattern of depth charges thundered in the Spencer's wake. But the tension was less than during the attack in darkness. Daylight seldom yields much in the battle against submarines. In their sea-stained zipper jackets and dungarees, Coast Guardsmen joked and talked about their next shore leave...