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...Lend-Lease Administration, the agents of Information Coordinator Bill Donovan were fighting to get aid to Russia and Turkey before the Japs and Germans closed all possible routes of aid. The Army and Navy Departments were fighting to get all possible aid to United Nations forces now in combat; to mount offensives, if possible; to build up defenses at vulnerable points...
Yamashita's experience in North China was rigorous preparation for his recent labors. He commanded on the tangled, hilly Shansi front and had to combat the best of China's guerrillas. He used many of their war tricks in Malaya...
...Captains also has a plot: an old story about some north-woods bush pilots (James Cagney, George Tobias, Reginald Gardiner, et al.) who have to learn that modern air combat is a young man's business. Cagney complicates matters further by appropriating another busher's girl (Brenda Marshall). He squares everything in the end by fatally ramming a pesky Messerschmitt 109 with his weaponless bomber-thus clearing the Atlantic crossing for the rest of the ferry pilots, who high-tail it for England while he drops dizzily into...
...twenty-one years old. Dull months of R.A.F. training routine during the "phony"' war had left him impatient of routine precautions. For him, no such impedimenta as gauntlets and goggles. Barehanded, open-eyed, through 23 days of combat duty at the peak of the Battle for Britain he went against the Messerschmitts. He had downed his quota in dogfights, learned to "Beware of the Hun in the Sun," to go into a spin when bullets started appearing along his port wing. "There is an appalling tendency," he remarks, "to sit and watch this happen without taking any action...
...conclusions are less metaphysical than those of Antoine de St. Exupery but not fundamentally different : "It was impossible to look only to oneself, to take from life and not to give except by accident . . . instinct had served them. Each time they climbed into their machines and looked off into combat, they were paying silent tribute to their comrades who were dead...