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Start now to get your feet ready for the day when you come out of a landing boat looking for something to shoot. Get rid of athlete's foot now. . . . Whenever possible (in combat) remove your shoe pacs and massage your feet. This should be done every twelve hours. . . . Spare socks are your most valuable piece of extra clothing. Change to dry socks whenever possible, and if they are not available wring out your wet socks before putting them back...
Congratulations on your publication of Jack Belden's piece on "The Taking Of White House Hill" (TIME, Aug 2). It comes as a welcome relief from the usual military correspondent's report, so thickly studded with task forces, combat teams, objectives, bridgeheads, zones of advance and other military terminology as to make the average reader come to view battlefield operations as a combination of chess and football...
Handmade Talk. Sponsored by the Air Forces Training Command, this convention was a joint affair, with Navy and Marine experts on hand to exchange opinion with Army flyers. Daytime was given over to lectures and demonstrations. After dinner the men sat around and talked, with many a gesture. (Combat flyers illustrate aircraft maneuvers by poising their hands one above the other, making their points with swoops and waves...
...convention took time for practice as well as theory. Cadets flew for the hard-cased professionals. They entertained each other with exhibitions of combat and flying technique which brought grunts from the toughest...
...wants and needs right now is a mass supply of capable pilots - as good as or a little better than the Axis pilots - to get in there in a hurry and win the war fast." For themselves, the professors tactfully suggested that advanced instructors be allowed to go on combat duty after a reasonable period of service...