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Wearers of the Cross. In World War II De Gaulle was commander of the 507th Regiment of the Chars de Combat, drawn from the neighborhood of Metz in Lorraine. The two-barred Cross of Lorraine was a part of the badge. When General de Gaulle sought an emblem for Free France he chose the Cross of Lorraine, with the motto Honneur, Patrie. The former word is missing from Vichy-france's motto...
...through a sweeping scimitar of sand and spills into the Atlantic, a new chapter was started last week in the U.S.'s book of military tactics. It was a chapter on whose subject Germany had already written a terrifying five-foot shelf: cooperation under a single command of combat arms in battle...
...Hell," griped a Marine captain with a chin like a dornick, "he's lit up like a new saloon." The light blinked out. Three miles out, Marines of the Fifth Regiment, roused from their crowded bunks, were piling over the side into pitching beach boats, settling their combat packs, fixing bayonets as they squatted down. An hour after the light had blinked its message, the muted roar of 1,500-horsepower engines overtoned the growl of the waves. The boats were in the surf; men with their rifles held high piled into the water...
Blind Men's Bluff? The pursuit groups at Mitchel Field have three pre-war jobs: 1) to break in new pilots on the P-40s; 2) to learn combat flying as it is actually done in World War II; 3) to man new groups as fast as they can be formed, for service in other defense zones and at U.S. bases...
Black Watch. To civilians who think of Army engineers as pick-&-shovel soldiers, the performance of the 41st might have seemed surprisingly belligerent. But not to soldiers: combat engineers fight with guns as well as shovels, often lead attacking troops into battle when enemy fortifications, tank-traps, etc. have to be demolished. Lieut. Colonel Wood's use of simulated tanks was something extra, just to show what Negro engineers could do in a pinch...