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...more and bigger attacks would be made-and on a frequent schedule. If the Japs had any lingering doubt, that was dispelled three days later when a B-29 group roared northward to hit Tokyo again, while an India-based mission of Superforts carried out a simultaneous attack on railway yards in Thailand's capital, Bangkok...
Slovakia, a communications keystone for the Germans in Poland, Hungary and Austria, had been governed from strategic Bratislava by puppet Dr. Josef Tiso. When the Balkans began to crack, the Germans prepared to move into Slovakia in force, occupy road and railway lines needed for their troops. At the end of August the Slovaks rose, hauled out arms from their hiding places, seized control of central Slovakia and the industrial town of Banska Bystrica (80 miles north of Budapest...
...newcomer gets a false sense of security. Hearing none of the usual din of battle, he comes jeeping along, admiring the scenery, when-ping-a sniper's bullet shatters his daydreams. . . . Japanese bullets and knee mortars can kill just as surely as von Mackensen's railway guns at Anzio...
...could carry perhaps ten tons of bombs, an unheard-of load for any bomber in the vast Pacific theater. All the B-29s returned, but three P-47s of the escort -the first the Superfortresses ever had-were lost to heavy antiaircraft fire at the target: Rangoon's railway yards...
...badge on this letter. Display it visibly on your glass in every tea room, in every bar ... in the vicinity of a railway station. Soon a member of our League . . . will take charge of you and ... the longings of lonely nights will find fulfillment...