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...interviewed by an officer of the Marince Corps at University 20, during the next two days. But they will not find it any draft-dodging device or soft war berth. The Marines may want a man with a sheepskin, but they want to train him to lead platoons in combat. Their officers are now serving from Greenland to the Philippines and from Alaska to the tropics. Part of the U.S. Navy, the Marine Corps is the spearhead of our first line of defense. Each division is a self-sufficient unit, containing field artillery, infantry, and aviation. Its functions range from...
Then, for the first time in fair combat, he met the U.S. Navy. Into narrow Macassar Strait, where the warships, transports and screening planes of the Jap's convoy coursed south, steamed destroyers from Admiral Thomas C. Hart's Asiatic Fleet, U.S. cruisers and at least one U.S. submarine followed. Overhead and probably in advance of Admiral Hart's warships, the U.S. Army's Flying Fortresses and Dutch airmen in U.S.-made bombers harried the Jap's protecting planes, destroyers, cruisers...
...heavy aircraft), then take off for London. Where they will go after that is anybody's guess. Only 50 British women are now serving as ferry pilots-shuttling planes about England, but not on long hops. Formerly restricted to training craft, they now fly every type of combat plane, except four-motored bombers (Flying Fortresses...
...week's end, Douglas MacArthur reported to Washington that six weeks of hard fighting had made veterans of his U.S. soldiers and Filipinos: "Their training in the difficult school of actual combat and their battle experience have steadied them and developed their initiative and resourcefulness...
...study of medical problems involved in high flying under combat conditions was one of many defense tasks undertaken during the past year by the Harvard School of Public Health, Dean Cecil K. Drinker, professor of Physiology, said in his annual report recently...