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...does this State glorify the native-born workers who are in reality nothing short of tenant farmers so wonderfully portrayed in Tobacco Road? It is these very workers who are the target of Southern discrimination because of color and breeding. Why, therefore, does the State of North Carolina picture these products of feudal serfdom as glorious, happy Americans...
Numbers are winning the war for us, and night hid the numbers-the many planes, the many tents, the very many men-at our strategic airfields in North Africa when the order came for the largest mission of Fortresses ever sent against a single target in this theater. The night was soon busy. Many bombs were loaded...
...morning Operations sent around men, woke all crews. After their breakfast they were all carried in many trucks to have their briefing. The target was to be Messina, Sicily's ferry terminus. The huge briefings broke into small briefings, in which formations were assigned, navigational data set out and targets defined...
What happened at Messina is an old story now. [In 18 minutes the Fortresses saturated the port and marshaling yards so thoroughly that when the raid was over the target, area was obscured by fire and smoke. The Germans attacked viciously, flying into their own flak while the Forts made their bombing runs, dropping small bombs on the tight formations of the U.S. planes. In the bitter fight over Messina, 20 Nazis were shot down. But the Forts got through and hit two ships in the harbor, plastered warehouses, docks, railroad tracks, stations. Despite the heavy Axis defenses, total Allied...
...their first visit to the Ruhr. They found and destroyed the carefully camouflaged plant at Hüls where the Germans manufactured a fifth of their synthetic rubber. On other days they flew into northeastern Germany and into Occupied France, had weather trouble and less luck with their ground targets. But against their secondary target, they had better luck: in two great air battles over Germany they reduced the German fighter force by nearly 100 planes...