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(Rec. 6.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 30. “America is producing a vast number of planes, which will soon fill the skies over the Nazis and shake the ground beneath their feet,” said the Under-Secretary of War, Mr Robert P. Patterson, in 3 He predicted that Tokyo would receive another visit from American bombers. Brigadier-General James Doolittle (who was in charge of the first American raid) had been surveying the ground and at the same time had somewhat changed the lay-out of the place, but he had left enough that would be recognizable when the next party went over. “The increasing size of the American Expeditionary Force abroad indicates that immediate action is contemplated on a scale to produce the second front which the Russians desire,” says the official journal Army and Navy Register. “No doubt now is the logical tune to strike against the Nazis and the Japanese. A bold stroke is probable in the very near future.
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Southland Times, Issue 24758, 1 June 1942, Page 5
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