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Against them moved Prince Amadeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, a lank, leathery, 42-year-old veteran of Italy's colonial service. Under his command were some 21,000 Savoy Grenadiers, seven legions of askaris* and a reserve of some 70,000 semi-trained labor troops. For the Somaliland venture he had ample aircraft, tanks, armored trucks and mobile light artillery for three mobile columns, totaling perhaps 10,000 men, which he set into motion last week. One column moved across the torrid, sandy coastal plain from Djibouti to Zeila. The other two, crossing the border by the road...
...regular Army there are five Negro officers. Three of them are chaplains, two combat officers. One of the combat soldiers is the commanding officer of Harlem's 369th: blocky, tea-colored Colonel Benjamin Oliver Davis, who came up from the ranks in 1901, has spent a large part of his service on such details as military attaché to Liberia, professor of military science and tactics at Negro colleges. The other is his son, Lieutenant B.O. Davis Jr., who was graduated from West Point in 1936, the fourth of his race to make the grade at the Army school...
Like other Army officers, 63-year-old Colonel Davis would rather not worry about the service's race problem, is happy with his first regimental command...
Conspicuous by their absence from air-battle dispatches were Britain's Boulton Paul Defiant fighters, whose revolving fire turrets fooled not a few Germans and carried off top honors in the fighting over Dunkirk-one place where R. A. F. gained local command of the air. Report was that the Defiants were found wanting after all, their manufacture discontinued. Germany was reported to have a fast new Heinkel 113 single-motored one-seater ready for the finals, specially equipped for night work and with extra-wide under carriage designed for rough landings. Guba and Mercenaries. Busy little Lord Beaverbrook...
...twelve-minute ad lib broadcast by Lewis from the Democratic Convention Hall in Chicago, McKay discovered only three and a half errors, a score that left him breathless. Close to Lewis on the McKay charts is Raymond Gram Swing who consistently scores a brilliant 17, has a perfect command of French...