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...blazing. Some members of the Commando kept up a covering fire from the beach; others slashed the German barbed wire, knifed, shot and clubbed German sentries. Farther along the shore, R.A.F. fighter-bombers attacked German searchlights and guns. An hour after landing, Major Trevor withdrew his raiders. A smoke screen hid their going...
...other American river was the Mississippi. The German was already in the Gulf of Mexico. He slipped through the Navy's surface and aerial screen, rose to periscope depth in the murky waters the Mississippi dumps into the Gulf 114 miles below New Orleans...
...Arthur William Tedder, a vital, soft-spoken Scot, visited Malta and saw with his own shrewd eyes what was happening. He promised to send reinforcements and keep on sending them. On Saturday, when the alert sounded, swarms of Spitfires rose to meet the Luftwaffe attack, tore through the screen of Messerschmitts that was protecting Junkers bombers, sent one after another on flaming nose dives into...
Against a tremendous improvised iconostasis (a screen built to hold icons when cathedral walls were full), visitors saw the tall spare figures of saints and Virgins, mournful of mien, with inclining haloed heads and slim-fingered hands. These paintings represented the oldest and most continuous art tradition of Europe-a tradition whose source was Byzantium ("icon" is from the Greek eikon, "image"). Icon painters of the 11th to 17th Centuries, "humble and mild and pious" (as a 16th Century Church Council enjoined them to be), painted as reverently as they prayed, "remembering the work of the earlier painters, following...
...Marshalls were built around carriers because of the need for air striking power. A typical task force in 1942 warfare consists of one or more carriers, two to four heavy cruisers, one to two light cruisers, six to eight destroyers. Task-force commanders, sniffing for bad weather to screen their movements, would welcome the addition of the new 25-to-28-knot battleships to their fleets, valuable in pumping shells ashore to cover landings, and to engage enemy battleships. But task-force commanders cannot use the husky old tubs of battleships that the Japs attacked in Pearl Harbor; the older...