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...mines and booby traps delayed these troops, but the delays were not serious. Holding southern Calabria and moving into Apulia, the British held very little of Italy. But that little was secure, it was open to as many more men as the Allied commands cared to send across the Strait of Messina, and to enlarge their conquest the invaders had only to keep on marching...
...supply routes near Mandalay and along the Irrawaddy River. Allied-trained and equipped Chinese troops, based in India, skirmished with Jap troops along the North Burma frontier, forced their retreat and destroyed their lines of communication. Reports came of British submarine operations as far south as the Strait of Malacca, between Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula...
...next afternoon the fleet from La Spezia had made its way to a point near the Strait of Bonifacio, which separates Corsica from Sardinia. Overhead hovered an R.A.F. reconnaissance plane; the ships were still outside Allied fighter range. At about 3:30 p.m. the tailgunner saw planes approaching. They were German Junkers...
...cool, rocky Mackinac (pronounced Mackinaw) Island, overlooking the strait where Lake Huron joins Lake Michigan, 43 members of the Republican Post-War Advisory Council met this week to chart their course through trickier waters. Their problem : what statement of foreign policy will best suit and serve the people of the Republic and therefore the Party? Whatever should come out of the meeting, it was clear from the start that G.O.P...
...Play. In a little vineyard hidden from German eyes across the Messina Strait, a U.S. battery commander, Lieut. William B. Dougherty, brought up "Draftee," one of the 155-mm. rifles that the Allies have dubbed "Long Tom" and the Germans "Whispering Death." A truck hauled the heavy gun into position. The crew wrote their names on the first shell. A red-haired Tennessee private was about to yank the lanyard when the colonel came up and said: "Do you mind, son?" The private answered: "That's all right, sir." The colonel yanked. Seconds later the shell crashed into...