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...published to entire command. Signed: GOYBET...
...Under the command of Colonel Miles, it launched itself with a superb spirit and admirable disregard of danger at the assault of a position stubbornly defended by the enemy. It took it by terrific fighting under an exceptionally violent machine-gun fire...
Last week red, white & blue commission pennants floated over both ships, along with the U. S. flag and the Navy's union jack (48 white stars on a blue field). Previously, Lieut. Davis kept a "diary" of each day's doings. Afterward, again in command of an "active" ship, he kept...
...Battle of Britain's fourth active week was the institution of regular night raids on the two warring capitals, London and Berlin. The British had expected this. The Germans had not. Sharp was the surprise of Berliners, who had been told for a year by their High Command that no enemy attack would ever reach their midst, to hear bombs exploding and see fires raging within a few blocks of the Wilhelmstrasse...
...fields from Newfoundland on. Chief of the Army's strong points in New England is the new Northeast Air Base now under construction at Chicopee Falls, Mass, (just north of Springfield). Farther south, on Long Island, is the Army's Mitchel Field, seat of the Air Defense Command. Through the whole northeast are scores of fields, ranging from New York City's LaGuardia and Floyd Bennett to emergency stops on the airline runs, from which Army aircraft could operate in a pinch. With Canada's cooperation, the use of Canadian fields would also be available...