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...West Point carried more armament than any transport ever seen in New York Harbor: at least four guns, including two 5-in. naval guns, anti-aircraft batteries, machine guns, torpedo tubes, a new and secret protection against magnetic mines. In command of her crew of 750 U.S. sailors, 60 Marines, was Captain Frank H. Kelley, U.S.N...
...pictures were rushed to a big port-complexioned Briton, Sir Richard Peirse, Chief of the Bomber Command. Knocking out his pipe and shutting off his notoriously favorite pipe dream-a dreadnought bomber with high enough ceiling, great enough speed and sure enough armament to make any fighter useless-Air Marshal Peirse set "interpretive experts" to work plotting the exact location of ships, number of planes necessary for a thorough job, other mechanical details. Then Sir Richard sat down with his staff and Fighter and Coastal Command liaison officers to discuss tactics: time and place of rendezvous, level of attack, number...
...When the German command posted imperious bills all over the city, Burgomaster Max ripped scores of them down with his own hands because the Germans had neglected to get the City Council's permission to post them...
...Fore," shouted a soldier. The golfer turned and glared at the trucks. Thereupon the soldiers let him have it: "Hey, buddy, do you need a caddy?" The man on the tee handed his driver to a caddy, jumped a three-foot fence, stalked to the convoy. A command car in the column jerked to a stop, and its officers piled out to face an Awful Fact. The golfer was Lieut. General Ben Lear, commander of the Second Army, director of the maneuvers from which the 110th had just emerged...
...pine and scrub oak trees, in 25 minutes laid a corduroy road across the bog, swept into the astounded 39th (white) Infantry on the Ninth's southern flank. Again the engineers wove through and around the enemy lines, ran some of their truck-tanks clear to the division command post (but caught no generals; they had fled). Before the games ended, in horrid confusion, the 41st was credited with halting the Ninth Division's planned attack for at least a day, perhaps disrupting it completely...