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1944
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JULY 6TH, 1944 FLIGHT RETURNING THE EMPTIES : A Ninth U.S. Air Force Dakota picking up on tow a stationary CG-4 glider. ropes used to take up the shock have pronounced hysteretic qualities. WAK in the AlR Air Attacks on Oil Refineries i The Shuttle Service Surprise Precision Bombing : Waning Japanese Air Strength The Nylon tow Night THE Germans have been losing a lot of men recently. The Prime Minister has told the House of Commons, with regret, that up to the capture of Rome the British Army in Italy had lost over 73,000 men, killed wounded and missing. This figure did not include losses by the Navy or Air Force, but they cannot have been very heavy. We may contrast this figure with the estimated losses of the Germans in the Cherbourg peninsula, which are put down at some 75,000. On the other parts of the Normandy front the German losses are said to have been much heavier than ours. Then, in Vitebsk, where 700 Stormo- viks bombed the city for an hour, the Russians say that they found 600 dead Germans in the streets. Between June 23rd and 27th the Russians say that the Germans left 32,000 dead on the battlefield. In the fighting round Minsk the Red Air Force has achieved domination FOR THE LOOK SEE : Landing a Piper Cub from an American L.S.T. during the capture of Japanese-held Wake Island. of the skies to an extent that it had never previously reached. The bad weather last week seriously reduced the amount of help which^Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory could give to Sir Bernard Montgomery; and as a result Rommel was-«btieFie^nng up some reirrfoj^efnents to his fjgl front. JPney must have had a^ task><5 get there, for airme^lav thg^roads and rails to
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