Power & Promise

Last week Allied bombers continued to blast the way for invasion. The area they hit ranged from Sardinia 800 miles eastward to Greece. It was an area of destruction. Along its varied route lay shattered Axis planes, bomb-ripped airfields, flaming hangars; charred landing docks, twisted loading cranes and supply ships, fire-gutted and listing at anchor; splintered freight cars; black, billowing smoke that had been million-gallon oil dumps; and the smoking rubble of torpedo factories, iron foundries, steel works, chemical plants and supply depots.

While the bombers continued to blast away, an Allied convoy of 25 cargo ships and ten large landing barges, escorted by U.S. battleships, cruisers, destroyers and an aircraft carrier, was reported by the Axis to have streamed past Gibraltar and into the Mediterranean. This was the second Allied convoy to enter the Mediterranean last week. The first fought off a night & day attack by Axis bombers and reached port without loss or damage.

In the east, British patrols made a night landing on Crete, destroyed planes and oil dumps, got a good look at the Axis defenses. A British broadcast had told the Cretans not to mistake this raid for invasion.

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