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...these preparations may have been solely defensive. Occupation of Spain by Hitler would entail a heavy risk. The adventure would probably require 25 divisions. The Iberian Peninsula would earn Hitler some 1,800 miles of vulnerable coastline. Since most Spanish railways are broad gauge and already taxed for internal needs, it would give Hitler a logistical headache. But above all, it would disperse his forces to duplicate a job already being done at the Tunisia-Sicily bottleneck...
...Whitey" was his deputy commander, Brigadier General Ennis C. Whitehead. "Em" was the Japanese concentration at Rabaul. Rabaul Peninsula lies at the northern tip of New Britain, 480 air miles from Moresby. It looks not unlike the cocked hammer of a pistol, and like a pistol the Japanese have pointed it at the Allies in the Southwest Pacific. Kenney's planes had hit it before, but not in the strength he wanted. Now Whitehead had met him at the airdrome with the news that his strength was mustered: two squadrons of Flying Fortresses, one of B-24 Liberators...
...have Lana Turner and Clarke Gable in the same picture, with a big battle on the Bataan peninsula to go with it, and Turner and Gable clinch more often in two hours than two stumblebum pugs in a six-round fight, MGM thinks you have something. And so does the audience...
Most of Dakar's white inhabitants are crowded into the twelve-mile peninsula that curves out from Africa like a beckoning finger, vulnerable to combined land-sea-air attack. The French know that one reason for the failure of the De Gaulle-British expedition two years ago was the lack of sufficient land and air strength in support of the Royal Navy's frontal assault. The French also know that the United Nations-with an air base at Bathurst (some 80 miles to the south) and troop pools filling up with U.S. soldiers along the African west coast...
...Poland, in Austria and throughout the Balkan peninsula, more angry and embittered objectors to Hitler's New Order dug gun or saber from under the floor and went off to mountain passes or to city cellars to kill Germans. Last week...