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...Baruch himself put it: "I didn't cover all the world." The report is aimed at one target: to make sure that the short-term complications involved in converting U.S. industry to peace do not make the long-term job of winning the peace itself more difficult-or even impossible...
...Home Guard, when in liquor, Missed his target-killed the Vicar; With more practice, like as not, Dad may be a better shot...
Four ships had bombed the target, then headed home in a tight diamond formation. Fourteen Jap fighters jumped them, shot down the win ship "Fyrtle Myrtle" (socalled because one of its crew was a new father, another expectant). Then the Zeros shot out one of "Golden Gator's" engines; the pilot, Captain Frederick S. Hinze Jr., dived the ship into a cloud...
Next U.S. target was the city of Frankfort on the Main. The Germans set up a terrific flak barrage; 21 bombers were lost. But again fighter opposition was negligible. At week's end Allied air fleets, 1,200 planes strong, staged a savage, two-day mauling of the Luftwaffe's important French air bases around Paris. Weather apparently was holding Britain's heavy night-flying bombers in check, but the speedy Mosquitoes were out nightly, at tacking German targets as far inland as Berlin...
...Sicily, Messerschmitts circled a nearby hill, but Technical Sergeant Richard Redding, stringing wire atop a telephone pole and a perfect target, worked on. Someone yelled up from below: "What are you doing up that pole...