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...Francisco's boards expect to draft childless married men in two weeks. Atlanta's boards were inducting married men without children, many another with thick glasses, poor hearing, few fingers. Such men can relieve others for duty and up to 30% of them can be repaired for combat by special medical attention. Examples: at one replacement center 18 one-eyed men are mechanics and clerks; out of a I-B battalion 10% entered officers training schools for administrative jobs...
...possible that many an Italian and Rumanian and even German soldier had lost his appetite for winter combat. Though Hitler had promised his armies that they would be properly clothed, the bitter northeast winds that drove snow and sand across the endless steppes last week blinded eyes, lashed flesh, cut through coats that were lined with mole and rat skins...
...illustrate the degree of unreadiness in the Pacific last December, Admiral King strode to a map in his Washington office and pointed to a position conveniently near but safely out of the combat zones. At this logical point he had to establish a fleet-fueling base after the fighting began ("one of the first things I caused to be done...
...worst of all was ta-pai-tzu (malaria). This was the worst malaria spot in the world. The deadly mosquitoes infested the gorge. Exhausted, underfed and ragged soldiers had neither mosquito nets for protection nor quinine to combat the fever. Casualties from malaria were higher than from combat. Apparently well men trudging along the mountain passes would suddenly flush, complain of the fire in their heads, then die. It was months before adequate quantities of quinine reached them...
...also the anniversary of the only outfit in the U.S. Army which has been in active combat almost continuously since the war began. The 19th Heavy Bombardment Group is the only Air Forces unit which has received three citations from the Secretary...