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Parachuting down from a dogfight and head-on crash in the Guadalcanal sector, Lieut. Henry E. Matson opened his eyes and said: "Safe at last." Then...
Seigle was supply sergeant in the New England Sector headquarters, Coast Artillery before he entered the specialized training program...
...everywhere yet find the troops to concentrate for its own purposes and to counter enemy concentrations. On such a front the whereabouts of ever-shifting air and tank formations and the availability of concealed reserves may mean more than the relative bulk of the forces routinely assigned to a sector. If, as the Germans reported last week, the Russians are moving reinforcements into the sector between Orel and Kharkov for a summer blow, the kind and quality, rather than the size, of the forces may be decisive...
This year the Germans have fewer divisions in Russia (according to Winston Churchill, 218). Many of these divisions are now veterans of defeat; many are probably below strength, or padded with misfits. The Luftwaffe is no longer master of the air and, at least in some sectors, it has already been mastered by the Red Air Force. On no sector, not even in the critical Orel area south of Moscow, have the Germans been able to mass the strength which they assembled in the south last year...
...more important centers had suffered even more. More than 1,000 acres of Düsseldorf, western Germany's most important commercial city, were devastated in a single raid on June 11. Not only its factories, but administrative and engineering quarters, which serve much of the whole Ruhr sector, were destroyed. Seven days after the raid fires could still be seen smoldering...