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...region of high wheat fields. They roared above the lemon and orange groves of the precipitous northern coast. On the port of Messina, the chief point of entry for supplies from the mainland, they dumped the biggest Sicilian bomb loads. (But none down the volcanic throat of nearby Mt. Etna- On both island and mainland the targets were carefully chosen: airdromes with their repair shops and grounded aircraft, railway junctions, gun emplacements, munitions and gasoline dumps. Said a veteran of Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, describing an attack on three airdromes: "It was the best job of Allied...
...Solomons dressing station a Marine sergeant with a wound in his throat got his sixth transfusion, made signs for paper and pencil, wrote...
...down on the floor. The little brown dog came over and started making queer noises from the bottom of its throat, and then it padded over to the bedroom and pushed at the door. He opened it and saw a pretty girl, perched on the packing box, powdering her nose. Then he knew why the dog bad knocked on his door...
...many cigar ashes cascaded down Winnie's waistcoat and whiskey & sodas down his throat...
...ruthless. Last week he toughened the will of his people to fight, by appeals to their patriotism, and by propaganda which made the most of their fierce resentment of British and U.S. bombings. He also sought to reduce the small number pf Italians who might try to cut his throat by independent deals with the Allies...