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Duisburg's Fifty-Sixth. On Duisburg in the Ruhr the R.A.F. made its 56th raid. Target: railway and river port facilities in the Rhineland's heart. Luftwaffe night fighters were again up in force and the R.A.F. lost eleven bombers...
...respite from new bombings but not from the aftereffects of earlier raids and the certainty of more to come. Every report from Italy testified to the progressive disintegration of internal morale, the difficulties of defense and to the prospect that beyond the Alps the R.A.F. had found its softest target...
...eleven of Kirn's SBDs took off in unusually bad weather for a dawn attack on the Jap seaplane base at Rekata Bay. Weymouth and Mildahn, with four other pilots, reached their target and gave the Japs a nasty surprise. From Henderson Field at dawn, four more SBDs took off on search flights, Weary leading one section, Purdum the other. They sighted five destroyers just out of range for dive-bombing attack. Other pilots took off for antisub patrol off Tulagi, to smoke out Jap land positions on northwest Guadal, to search for some lost pilots...
...that some 17,000,000 gallons of aging Scotch whiskey have now been buried in "abandoned caves and other remote and inaccessible places." Lord Rosebery, who has a tasteful appreciation for good art, good horses and good whiskey, ruefully added: "A single enemy plane . . . with no idea of specific target, dropped a single bomb which fell plumb on . . . 70,000 gallons. That shows what we're up against...
...German High Command, whose primary objective was to hang on to Tunis and Bizerte and strike back in northwestern Africa. The fox had been left to find another temporary refuge, possibly at Misurata, 300 miles farther along the North African coast. After Misurata was Tripoli, itself a dubious refuge, target of methodical Allied bombing...