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...when its communiques claimed that the enemy was "cut off." It was just a question of which would chew the other up. The Germans did-apparently for two chief reasons: 1) the superiority of German aviation, which not only bombed and strafed the Russians mercilessly, but enabled the German command to know what was going on while the Russian command was largely in the dark; 2) the inability of the Reds, who did not see the battle whole, to mount anything bigger than local counterattacks. Except for these two contingencies, Panzer-conscious Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, a dead man, might have...
...single bomber delivered to Britain by air has been shot down by German action, even though the planes used to fly unarmed and unarmored. But last week a plane carrying eleven Atlantic Ferry Command pilots and eleven crewmen back to America for another batch of deliveries crashed, presumably of engine failure, on a lonely hillside in Britain. Four days later another crashed on the takeoff, and twelve more Ferry Command pilots and nine more crewmen were killed...
Last week Marshal Pétain raised his sly little Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan to a new eminence-Minister of National Defense. Thereby Admiral Darlan apparently added to his Navy command that of Vichy's Army, whose largest. forces are in North Africa under General Maxime Weygand...
...spite of Washington whisperings about his age, principally on his own Republican side of Congress, Henry Lewis Stimson runs the Army. He probably lives closer to its high command than any Secretary since Newton D. Baker. Among Army men he is classed with the best Secretaries they have had in modern War Department history: Baker and Elihu Root...
Riding in his command car Louisiana-bound with his division (45th) for war games, Major Sandy Goodman acquired a consuming thirst from Texas' boiling sun and dusty highways. He didn't mind saying so into his radio transmitter. Major General George V. Strong, 8th Corps commander, inspecting the march from an airplane, overheard, ordered his pilot to land. They picked up a carton of iced bottled drinks at a roadside stand, flew back to the line of march and dropped the carton by parachute close to the parched Major...