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...Toothpicks, chopsticks, wooden and plastic pins to combat the hairpin shortage...
...With a practicable combat radius of 600 miles or more, compared to about 150 miles for Spitfires, the P-38s greatly extend the areas in continental Europe which can be attacked under essential fighter cover...
...supply lines no surcease from bombing. Allied bombers raided Mediterranean shipping. Tobruk became known as the "milk run" to R.A.F. pilots who made regular, daily visits. Meanwhile U.S. service troops-mechanics, technical experts, supply specialists, laborers, trainers-slaved away steadily in Africa to build posts for U.S. combat troops on the way. As a relief to stretches of toil, they toughened themselves on the sand...
...Army Air Forces last week tapped the one group of experienced pilots that had not yet heard the come-hither of the armed services. To ferry aircraft from factory to airdrome, release uniformed airmen for combat service, it invited the 500 or 600 women with commercial pilot licenses, to give it a lift, sat back to await a rush of ladybirds...
...stepping up of the intensity of the vital combat in which we are engaged and the growing need for enlarged forces make it clear that all young men fortunate enough to have the physical and mental qualifications to enable them to serve their country in the Armed Forces are destined for that service. Further, the exigencies of the war have now become such that it is now expected that by the end of the college term or semester beginning in September those student members of the Reserves who have reached Selective Service age will all or for the most part...