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With electron tubes any combat unit, even a plane streaking across the night sky above the clouds, is in close touch with its command post. Army headquarters in Australia, Iceland, Tunisia, China are neighboring plugs on a single electronic switchboard...
Charged with forming and training a new Bombardment Group, Saunders sweated until he had whipped his Group into combat shape...
...shaded, U.S. residential street and a picture of an Indiana dirt road complete with rugged farmer, there were full-page color photos of Franklin Roosevelt (with a story about him) and Henry Wallace (with an article by him). Other features: a three-page color spread of Marines training for combat; a double-truck photo of a bomb-battered, sinking Jap cruiser; three pages of pictures showing camouflaged and bombed Berlin buildings...
Peacock-proud of another break from the textbooks, bluff Ben Lear hopes to give Ranger training to every young officer and noncom, send him to his new division with plenty to teach. Like every other ranker charged with training, he has watched combat reports, talked to returning soldiers. Chief lesson from these sources is that even crack outfits are jittery, indecisive and prone to suffer high casualties in their first meetings with the enemy. By making home-training courses tougher, noisier and more dangerous, the Army is confident lives can be saved, battles won more quickly...
...first batches were ready for shipment to Europe when the Armistice was signed. None saw combat, but lewisite had earned a sinister name-Dew of Death-because a few drops on a man's skin were sufficient to kill. Heavier and more persistent than mustard gas, lewisite is an arsenic compound which smells like geraniums, bears the scientific name of beta-chlorvinyldichlorarsine. While mustard causes many casualties but few deaths, lewisite was expected to cause a greater proportion of deaths...