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...tank successes, Lieut. General Vassily Mikhailovich Badanov this week received the Order of Suvorov, a new decoration for commanders. Commander of the drive down the Rostov railway was one of the few Russian soldiers known in the U.S.: Lieut. General Filip Ivanovich Golikov, who headed a Soviet military mission in Washington...
...Britain and in western Europe. By night the moon was full and by day the mists were gone from R.A.F. and U.S. airdromes. Earthbound for many days, four-engined U.S. Fortresses and Liberators soared up from Britain and flew 180 miles into France-to the Nazi air and railway center at Romilly-Sur-Seine, 65 miles southeast of Paris and the farthest into German Europe that U.S. bombers had yet ventured...
Munich's Fifth. The R.A.F.'s higher-load Lancasters and Stirlings bored deeper into Nazi Europe. On a bright night they gave Munich's railway shops, grenade factories and submarine-engine plants the city's fifth R.A.F. raid. Through broken clouds the crews saw great fires. Aloft they met Nazi night fighters "in some strength" but got surprisingly little ack-ack. Lost: twelve British planes...
Duisburg's Fifty-Sixth. On Duisburg in the Ruhr the R.A.F. made its 56th raid. Target: railway and river port facilities in the Rhineland's heart. Luftwaffe night fighters were again up in force and the R.A.F. lost eleven bombers...
Open the Veins. By day and night Hurribombers, the R.A.F.'s light, fast Mosquitoes and American-built Douglas Bostons bombed and gunned locomotives, other rolling stock, railway lines and stations, gasoline dumps-anything anywhere in the coastal belt of France and The Netherlands whose loss would drain Germany's transport and supply machine...