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...Never in warfare have air forces concentrated so much destruction on a target of comparable size in a single mission. . . . Today we fumigated Cassino, and I am most hopeful that, when the smoke of today's battle clears, we shall find more worthy occupants installed with little loss...
...over the target his luck ran out: a burst of flak enveloped his Fort, sent it diving out of formation...
Less than two years ago, sharp, angry Colonel Hugh J. Knerr of the Army Air Forces was in the doghouse. One of the air arm's crack staff officers, Hugh Knerr had been retired for physical disabilities in 1939, had forthwith begun to write and speak. Target of most of his word bombardment: the admirals of the Navy and their limited view of air power. His remedy for this situation: a separate air force, poison to any devout Navy...
...swoop into the Admiralty Islands last week tightened a noose around the Bismarck Archipelago (see map), attention was fixed on a Jap-held prize on the northern tip of New Britain. Rabaul, a great naval and air base, only 830 miles from Truk, may be MacArthur's next target...
...Strikes. Ancient Pskov, with its dilapidated, mossy-walled kremlin, was still the Red Army's prime target. This week, Red units pressed toward the city's gates. At the Pskov railroad station, charred ruins and the stench of war marked the spot where Red bombers caught dozens of Nazi trains being loaded for evacuation...