World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Harassing Fire

Despite the cloud of censorship, the reassurances of British officialdom, the casual gibes of high hearted correspondents and the absurdity of German propaganda claims, the robot bomb attack on southern England showed plain signs that it might grow from a major nuisance into a minor menace.

From the deck of a ship named the John E. Ward, standing off the English coast, Correspondent Gene Currivan of the New York Times saw 28 of the aerial torpedoes winging toward England. Twenty-seven were of the sort which made their disagreeable debut last fortnight (TIME, June...

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