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...have been through and then spend a few minutes in serious thought. I might also mention one letter written by my brother on Aug. 7 (just eight months after Pearl Harbor) in which he stated that during that eight-month period he had had only four days off from combat flying and during those four days he was on duty at the flying field...
...airline operator had learned much on the Pacific that he wanted to tell the U.S. He spoke of the ordeal of American boys on the Pacific battlefronts ; begged war workers to make superhuman efforts to turn out more goods. Said he: "If they could bring the combat troops back here and put them in the factories we would have production doubled in 30 days' time...
...Forces' most dangerous jobs, including what pilots and photographers call "dicing"-flying as low as 100 feet over enemy targets for close-up pictures. Roosevelt has "diced" Tunisia, Sicily and Sardinia, and last week he was still trying to pile up more combat-flying time than any other man in his unit. One reason for his zeal: he knows that many men in the Army look with suspicion on "the President...
Could the Germans ever persuade French sailors to take any salvaged ships into combat against the Allies? Snapped Darlan: "Definitely...
...wounded are then moved by ambulance convoys to 1) surgical hospitals, "or those needing operations quickly, 2) evacuation hospitals, for nonsurgical cases and movable surgical cases or 3) convalescent hospitals, for men who will soon be able to return to combat. Men needing longer, more special care are taken still farther away to general hospitals beyond the combat zone...