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...raid exceeded our most optimistic expectations." South of Tokyo he left in flames a cruiser or battleship under construction at the Navy yard. At Nagoya he showered incendiary bombs on the Mitsubishi airplane factory and an oil-tank farm. "It appeared to us that practically every bomb reached the target for which it was intended. . . . About 25 or 30 miles to sea the rear gunners reported seeing columns of smoke rising thousands of feet...
Last week the British gave a good demonstration of what a "medium-sized show" could be. One night when there was a hint of better ceilings after several days of bad weather, the R.A.F. thundered out across Germany with close to 300 planes. The target was industrial Mannheim (pop. 275,000), railroad-veined center on the upper Rhine. The R.A.F. was after the Daimler-Benz airplane-engine (for Messerschmitts, Dorniers, etc.) works, the Lanz armament plant, the vast Badische chemical works nearby...
...sure to find a target sitting there, for that is where seaborne ships pick up their pilots for the trip upriver. His first target was a big U.S. ship. He sent three torpedoes crashing into her. She burst into flames so explosively that a good half of her crew were trapped below. The rest, seared and oil-blackened, went overside, were carried out into the Gulf, there picked up by a Coast Guard cutter. Only 14 of her 41 lived to tell how they were attacked, only a mile and a half off the mouth of the country...
...trial run of 5,000,000 noncombatant gas masks has been ordered. But to equip all war workers and stay-at-homes in the potential target areas - the 300-mile-wide strips along the three coasts, and 33 other strategic areas -would require 55,000,000 masks...
...movement south from his concentration area it looked as if he might be headed for a land attack on Port Moresby, which he had not been able to reduce by air raiding. But as he plowed south, it became clear that he was after a more important target. He was headed either for the northeast coast of Australia, or for the strategic prize of New Caledonia, 1,200 miles to the east on the Australian lifeline, where the U.S. had already landed...