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...General Stuart, followed rank on rank by U.S. gun carriers, tanks, armored cars, combination gun & man carriers in seemingly endless variety, the newest and most formidable mechanized weapons of a nation at war. As they passed, and then returned to perform over the obstacle-strewn test courses of the Aberdeen Proving Ground, a twostar, rain-soaked general muttered: "I'm glad I'm not a German...
Bendetsen, with a Stanford law degree, a reserve lieutenancy and an interest in radio and aviation, was practicing law in his Aberdeen, Wash, hometown in 1939 when the Judge Advocate General's Department called him. There, as captain, he helped draft the Selective Service and Soldiers' & Sailors' Relief Acts. Promoted to major, he prepared the War Department's legal steps for taking over two striking airplane plants, organized the alien and war prisoner division of the Provost Marshal General's Office. Later, a lieutenant colonel, he prepared Franklin Roosevelt's executive order that last...
...cast their final vote we found that TIME's exhibitors had made out pretty well. TIME's General Manager somehow took the blue ribbon for preserves and the Managing Editor of the MARCH OF TIME on the Air won the title "best farmer" with photographs of his Aberdeen-Angus cattle...
Many of these first-person reports have been given by plain people-like the women war workers who told you about their jobs at the arsenal proving grounds in Aberdeen, Maryland-or the Englishman just back from a Commando raid who told you the epic story of the battle of St.-Nazaire-or the U.S. bombardier in London who told you how it feels to bomb Germany...
That is what it is like to be inside a sturdy observation tower a mile from the exploding block busters which the Army is now testing at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. But the observers don't go through it for the sensation. The craters are measured, the radius of destruction noted (everything within 100 yards is destroyed and a man might be killed at even greater distances). Of primary interest to Army Ordnance is the weapon itself-the number and shape of the fragments from the exploded bomb, the action of the powder charge. All this data is filed...