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...Chin Up. The Battle of the Pacific has demonstrated the need for flyers who can handle themselves in water. Preflight cadets are taught to swim in waterlogged uniforms, to master the chin-up breast stroke instead of the crawl, to swim under water, to strive for endurance rather than speed. At the end of the three-month course, each man should be able to stay afloat for five hours...
...Stilwell's crowd. We drove about 150 miles west in the trucks and jeeps and then had to abandon them one by one if they got stalled even for a few moments. We were ordered to save out only what each one thought he could carry up the Chin Hills and abandon the trucks. I knew we would have to take care of all the sick in the company of 105 who followed General Stilwell out, so I ordered each nurse to carry some first-aid articles in addition to her own stuff. So they each took...
...athlete. She dresses with elegant plainness -sometimes in colors to match a ginger-brown French poodle which she leads on a pink patent-leather leash. Her dark hair falls in a long bob; her eyes are bright blue, a little gap between two front teeth emphasizes her firm chin and nose...
...Arnold had gone into infantry when he left the Academy in 1907, switched to flying in 1911, taking lessons from the Wrights and becoming one of the Army's first four military aviators.* From the start he was a spectacular airman. He still has a scar on his chin from the crack-up he prizes most. Hanging in the wreckage of his plane off Plymouth Beach in 1912, he saw help coming: two old codgers in G.A.R. uniforms in a rowboat. They passed him by; they were against airplanes...
...steps per minute, which became known to us as the "Stilwell Stride," the iron-haired, grim, skeleton-thin General walked into India with tommygun on shoulder at the head of a polyglot party of weary, hungry, sick American, British and Chinese Army officers, enlisted men, Burmese women nurses, Naga, Chin and Shan tribesmen and a devil's brew of Indian and Malayan mechanics, railwaymen, cooks, refugees, cipher clerks and mixed breeds of southern Asia...