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...nerves as polishing a rifle, defense organizations flourished so widely last week that they belonged, as did fifth-column talk, in the category of a national phenomenon. In Manhattan leaders of the National Legion of Mothers of America organized the Molly Pitcher Rifle Legion, pledged to target practice once a week. Purpose: to pick off descending parachute troops, when...
...road (see p. 21). And the Sixth Column-the milling, hysterical hordes of refugees, 2,000,000 of them in the Belgian pocket alone-clogged roads and snarled up the already disorganized Allied supply lines. The disrupting Panzer column blows were swift and, when parried, they glanced around the target to strike farther on, even deeper in the Allied rear. Meanwhile, in Belgium the German infantry pressed forward relentlessly, night and day, in efficient "sacrificial cooperation" with the air and armored forces...
...Reference to Alfred Duff Cooper's toast to the Empire on St. George's Day, in which he named the German people, as well as the Nazi regime, as Great Britain's hated target...
...wings to pull them out of long, steep power dives at 430 m.p.h. Their crews are specially trained to stand the pressures of such performance. They carry only one 1,100-lb. or two 500-lb. bombs. These they aim by pointing the plane's nose at the target during its screaming dive. Theory is that 100 such bombs so aimed by 100 such hell-divers could not fail to blast the toughest target...
They are finally shot like projectiles against a target of another substance, such as sodium, and smash a number of the sodium atoms. This changes the nature of these atoms and makes the sodium radioactive...