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...Republican committee members, wistfully talking of high-tariff prosperity and solidly opposed to further reductions, Henry Wallace looked like a symbol of their discontent. They quizzed him about everything from killing pigs to full em ployment. To Minnesota's finance-minded Harold Knutson he looked like the fattest target he had seen in months...
...corps is not made up entirely of specially recruited personnel with only enough flight training to carry out a fatal mission. Many attacks are at night; it takes skilled pilots to attack a target in the dark...
...days earlier, day raiders escorted by fighters from Iwo Jima had hammered Tokyo's Musashino-Nakajima factory for the eighth time, and others had blasted an aircraft factory in Koriyama, 110 miles north of Tokyo-the most northerly target so far attacked. From reconnaissance photographs, the results of last fortnight's raid on Nagoya were read: the Mitsubishi plant almost completely destroyed, 90% of the roofing gone over the whole target area. This week Tokyo was hit again-the third time in five days-by B-29s in "very great strength...
...great Krupp works at Essen, arsenal of Kaiser and Führer, lay dead. For five years this steel heart of the German war machine had been a prime target of Allied bombers. Last week U.S. Ninth Armymen rolled past the debris, a few miles farther south overran the high-walled Villa Hügel, secluded estate of powerful, mysterious Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Herr President of Krupp, silent partner of Naziism, now wanted by the Allies as a war criminal...
...Navy ships and the everyday work & play of the men who man the ships. Soon, the day of battle approaches: an enormously enlarged panel pictures flyers being briefed below decks of a carrier while crews ready the planes. The attack unfolds in pictures of planes in formation, softening the target for the marines. There are striking photographs of pilots "sweating it out," waiting to hear the news of their fellow fighters. There are moving shots of men in pain...