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Turning to British destiny in Europe, Sir Samuel said: "Having achieved [military strength] we do not intend to abandon it ... it is the guarantee of British victory. Tomorrow it must be the safeguard of European stability...
Tomorrow night at 7:30 the Harvard V-12 Unit will present a fifty-minute program of war-time swimming in the Indoor Athletic Building. The exhibition will include such stunts as swimming with rifles, swimming in burning oil, and abandon ship drill...
...their first flying time in civilian planes. At Chapel Hill and the other Pre-Flight Schools,* academic courses continue, but the emphasis is on physical fitness. Sports stressed are those which feature bodily contact and competitive spirit; boxing, wrestling, football. Swimming is a must: every cadet learns how to abandon ship, how to free himself from a cockpit under water. All must be able to swim three-quarters of a mile with clothes...
...mines with a generous hand. Cautious Red sappers, one Soviet Union officer reported, gingerly disconnected booby traps from chimney pots, sacks of potatoes, haystacks, fresh loaves of bread-even from crying infants. But the mines did not delay the Red Army long, and the Germans had to abandon many of their supply dumps. Food and ammunition by the trainload fell into Russian hands. On a single airfield in the south the Reds captured 19 undamaged planes. Near Bryansk, they seized land mines stacked in Teutonically neat mounds...
...weaved desperately to escape, then came to a grinding halt on the cruel edge of a coral reef which held the thin mahogany plywood hull like a bear trap. Jap fire was creeping closer. The youthful skipper ordered men to destroy secret devices and papers, gave the word to abandon ship. One enlisted man was killed on deck; the others swam through shark-infested waters to safety aboard another U.S. vessel...