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...bomber and then realized a Zero had tagged on to him. He headed out to sea to get clear and flip around and meet the Jap head on. "Imagine my surprise when there were nine Zeros instead of one. But it was too late for anything else, so I tore right into them." Bong...
Twelve days had passed since British bombers tore the German night, ten since U.S. bombers flew in sunlight to Le Bourget (see cols, 1 & 2). Bad weather, the one defense which works against an air offensive, had given both the Germans and the Allied bombing fleets a valuable respite...
...spent shell fragment. . . tore a hole through my pup tent just beside me one noon while I was resting. I keep this, for I have a certain sentimental attachment for it. Had it been an inch longer, my life would have been a lot shorter...
...balls and the officers' shouts tore at the minds and feet of the men. They ran toward the trees, the sand humps, anything beyond the water which offered cover. Once there, they realized that in most places the enemy fire had been rather light. A soldier said: "I've been wounded. But there is so much blood, I can't tell exactly where." In the darkness, along a 45-mile stretch of the island shore, it was pretty much the same: confusion in the first moments, the slow adhesion of well-commanded troops, the first meetings with...
...last week swarmed Jap jungle fighters in greater force than they had mustered for some time. Anticipating attacks on Salamaua and Lae, they were feeling out Allied positions, possibly planning to open a limited drive southeast to establish better defenses. But the Allied troops, now skilled in jungle warfare, tore into the Japs, killing 100. Boston medium bombers thundered low over the retreating enemy. After five days of scattered fighting the score of Jap casualties was 204. Planes continued to roar overhead daily, blasting supply dumps of an enemy whose supplies had long been bone-thin, strafing stubborn units which...