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Connie Burwell (who studied at the University of Heidelberg after she finished at Sweet Briar) was inside Germany all during the feverish war preparations of 1937-1938-saw Hitler, Himmler, Goring, Goebbels many times-made notes of everything she saw and heard, tore them into strips, smuggled them out of. Germany in her shoes under the noses of the Gestapo...
...before, shock-haired Novelist Louis Bromneld, owner of a 1,100-acre Ohio farm, had become so incensed before the dairymen that he tore up his prepared speech, roared: "Since preparing that speech, I have read a vast amount of nonsense about the food crisis. I am tearing mad. . . . They haven't any real farm policy down there in Washington. One word can describe the one big mess they've made: 'Bedlam...
...Technical Sergeant Art Layfield later told TIME Correspondent William Walton: "When we hit the German coast they were throwing everything in the German Air Force at us. Some thing knocked out half our ship's oxygen system, the half on the pilot's side. Then a bullet tore through the nose. Such a blast of air came in that both pilot and co-pilot began to freeze. One was barehanded, the other had only light dress gloves, and we were above 20,000 feet. Within a couple of minutes the ball-turret gunner had shot down...
...Bismarck Sea. Just what the Japs hoped to accomplish with this formidable force was hard to see: no important shipping was in the area, according to Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, and the Japs surely knew by then that the American positions were well defended. U.S. fighters tore into the Jap formations, shot down 77 bombers and Zero-type fighters. Ack-ack accounted for 17 more. U.S. loss: six planes (plus, probably, some others temporarily damaged). Jap bombs hit, but did not sink, one Liberty-type ship and one smaller cargo ship...
...commander of marines] went to the table, looked at a piece of paper a sailor had left there, read it, tore it up and asked in a grim voice...