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Hardheaded Suicides. Torpedo 8 was one of the first American squadrons "to use Guadalcanal for the purpose for which it was taken-as an unsinkable aircraft carrier anchored in the throat of Japan's South Pacific conquests." They learned to know "the groove"-a' long strait down which the Jap Navy escorted its transports to the beach and on whose blue waters lay "a great glitter of sunlight . . . making ships as difficult to spot as pins in a tray of diamonds." On Aug. 24, in the Second Battle for the Solomons, Torpedo 8 went out to revenge Midway...
British and U.S. bombers coursing over the Mediterranean last week outlined the next Allied objective. If the pattern of the bombings meant anything, it was to be a two-part objective: the island of Sicily and, just across the Strait of Messina, the southern toe of Italy...
...What he saw on this U.S. airdrome was duplicated on the airfields of the R.A.F.'s big night bombers. There, too, the pilots and crews were killing time in barracks and canteens, while outside the big, black Stirlings and Lancasters gleamed wet on the runways. Over the Dover Strait, on the route to Germany, the fog lay thick and grey. At 10,000 feet, the operational altitude for the big planes, the long summer twilight never ended: the bombers flying on night missions now would fly by daylight when they reached that height...
Over the marshy coastal plain of the Taman Peninsula rumbled hundreds of Soviet tanks and guns, perhaps 150,000 men. They cracked through Field Marshal Fritz von Manstein's defenses, pushed the Germans slowly back toward the narrow Kerch Strait, separating the Crimea from the Caucasus. Berlin radio claimed 61 Russian tanks knocked out one day, 59 the next, but admitted retreat: "In view of continuous Soviet attacks, it proved necessary to adopt a particularly elastic warfare...
While Taranto was in progress, Vice Admiral Sir Henry Daniel Pridham-Whippell trounced an Italian convoy in the Strait of Otranto, and A.B.C. signaled: "I trust you had many opportunities of using your heavy mashie." The Vice Admiral, a naval golf champion, flashed back "a detailed affirmative...