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...herald of invasion. It might have been practice for invasion. Or it might have been a calculated blow at some Nazi threat to coming invaders-or to England. Nazi propagandists and London censors, alike interested in concealing the precise nature of any such threat, encouraged the report that the target was a concentration of cross-Channel rocket guns...
...airmen worked with deadly, purposeful persistence. They had been told exactly what to aim at, reported that they hit the target again & again. For its part of the attacks, the Eighth put up the biggest force of heavies it had ever sent over the Channel (biggest previous force in one raid: 750 Fortresses and Liberators...
...Inner Target. From the Mediterranean, Jimmy Doolittle's Fifteenth U.S. Air Force sent planes "in force" to Innsbruck and Augsburg in southwest Germany. The Augsburg raid dramatized the enormous growth of Allied air power and air techniques: not so long ago (April 17, 1942) the R.A.F. could spare only twelve Lancasters for a costly, experimental daylight raid on Augsburg from Britain...
...neatest minor inventions of the war, a new signaling mirror, was announced last week by General Electric. Equipped with a sighting device that works on the same principle as a sextant, the mirror can flash a signal flush on a target as far away as ten miles...
Hunting a distant target with sunbeams reflected from an ordinary mirror is a good deal like trying to pin the tail on the donkey. This glass has a full mirror on its face, a smaller circular mirror on its back, and a sighting cross (A) in the center. To aim it, the signaler faces the mirror toward a point about halfway between the target (the plane) and the sun, and sights the target through the cross. The sun, shining through the sight, makes a cross-shaped spot of light (B) on the signaler's hand. When the mirror...