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...premature news dispatch (to the Chicago Sun) disclosed the arrival of U.S. troops in Australia. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced that air and ground forces were there "in considerable numbers." Difficult terrain, great sea distances, an aroused army and population-all these made Australia a tough target for the Japs. Nevertheless, one consideration could drive them to hazard invasion now: the conviction that, unless Australia is conquered or isolated, it will become a United Nations base for air, naval and land offensives to recapture the southwest Pacific...
...Paris industrial region the Germans had it pretty cozy. British air power had battered the French coast and pounded many a target in the provinces-power stations, chemical works, coke ovens, refineries, railroads and rail yards. But Paris had not been molested. At Billancourt, on the Seine just outside the city, lay the great Renault plant, which in the time of France's late 40-hour week employed 30,000 workers. Now it clanged away, making tanks, engines, planes and trucks for the Germans-the Russians had found some Renault-built tanks abandoned by the Nazis on the Eastern...
...ruins. The photographs showed heavy damage all over the Renault plant. Especially hard-hit were the tank assembly shops (microscopic scrutiny of the pictures disclosed wrecked tanks inside), the main gas tank, the power station. The only unscathed sections were the tire-making shop, which was not in the target area, and the Diesel assembly shop...
Everything was right. The moon was bright, but ghostly and tricky with mist. Swarms of British attack planes thundered down on the night's target, peppered & salted it with bomb, cannon, machine gun. In the milky darkness half a mile away, big Whitley bombers dropped clusters of parachute troops, their faces and even their teeth blackened by burnt cork...
...Force end of this complex operation was handled by Wing Commander Percy Charles Pickard. who had a pilot's part in the British film Target for Tonight. No doubt the Germans would build another detector station. But, Airman Pickard and his Army and Navy colleagues, in faultless timing, perfect coordination and complete success of their mission, had fought a fine war in miniature...