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...carrier-based naval squadron of dive-bombers and torpedo planes smashed a Jap fleet movement of one carrier flanked by cruisers and destroyers. Torpedo-plane Pilot Lieut. Bruce Harwood of Claremont, Calif., flew within 800 yards of the carrier (presumably the 7,100-ton Ryuzyo) before releasing a "pickle" that sent a giant plume of flame from the ship's bow. In the opening Solomon Islands' sea battle Jap fleet units took a terrific pounding. To U.P. Reporter Joe James Custer the great balls of flame being volleyed back & forth over the blue court of the ocean turned...
Professor Kohn of Smith College, will give some of the courses previously taught by Associate Professor Rupert Emerson who is now with the OPA in Washington, and by Associate Professor Bruce Hopper, now on a special mission in Europe. During the first semester Professor Kohn will offer Government 14, Nationalism in International Relations, and during the second semester Government 18, New Factors in International Relations. He will also have a number of tutorial students...
...after a generation of expansion, construction and landscaping, diligent Promoter Eaton (he prefers to be known simply as The Builder) has developed Forest Lawn to the point where "nature herself seems to have planned these acres for their consecrated purpose." Over the grounds which Copywriter Bruce Barton once dubbed "a first step up toward Heaven" are ranged "the greatest collection of large marble statuary figures in the country." Other works of art include a vast stained-glass window reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, an 87-ft. Tower of Legends which is also a reservoir holding...
...tank has two weaknesses: 1) blind spots; 2) slow speed. It is General Bruce's problem to figure out how destroyers can capitalize on these weaknesses. The TD's own weakness is lack of armor. Its strength is speed. General Bruce is figuring out tactics by which a destroyer can get in its dirty work with the least risk. He stands on a hill to watch half his men charge over the ground in tanks while the other half bedevil them with tank destroyers and all known anti-tank tricks. As all this goes on, Bruce...
After what Rommel has done even while the British have air superiority, General Bruce thinks there should be at least two, possibly four, tank-destroyer battalions with each combat division. He is quietly going about selling the idea to the Army. By autumn there will be 35,000 men at Camp Hood, and there will soon be half as many men in tank-destroyer outfits as in tanks...