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...Some have metal kneecaps, fitted with metal spikes, to be driven into enemy crotches and spines. They can devise their own daggers, clubs, knives. They know the uses of spiked brass knuckles. All must know a Commando equivalent of jiujitsu. Fiercely, without quarter, they battle each other in practice combat, often break each other's bones: a few nights before the St. Nazaire raid one officer had his hand cut to the bone in a scuffle. For night attack, they black their faces and shoes, wear black uniforms, partly for camouflage, partly for the effect on enemy morale...
...first five months of 1942, more combat ships were added to the U.S. Fleet than in any twelve-month period since the President, with no encouragement from Congress and some protest, used NRA funds to launch his naval-production program...
...needed no discipline and could worry along with second-rate planes. They were-and are-super-pilots. Every man among them got a postgraduate education from the onetime schoolmaster from Waterproof, La. who left the Air Corps in 1937 with the conviction that only war would prove his combat theories...
...Army says only that gas masks have been supplied to every soldier sent into a potential combat zone. Gas warfare is humane, say the military theorists. As proof, they cite the fact that in World War I gas caused less suffering from wounds than other weapons. Of the 1,300,000 men gassed, only 90,000 were fatalities, and complete recoveries predominated. (Of the 28,000,000 men wounded by other weapons, 8,200,000 died.) And gas is quick and effective, they argue. War's objective is to immobilize the enemy and make him sue for peace. What...
...long-delayed "Petticoat Army" Bill was close to enactment last week. Even happier than the bill's feminine backers was the Army itself, which wanted to free as many men as possible for combat...