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...July 9th, Harvard's latest addition to the Armed Services, John L. Steele, was called into service with a reserve officer's commission of 1st Lieutenant. He is now in training at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts and has been assigned as commanding officer to a unit of the Amphibian Command of the Engineer Corps...
Lieut. General Neil Ritchie, who lost the first round of the battle, was out, and command of the battered Eighth Army had been taken over by no less a person than the British Commander in Chief of the Middle East, General Sir Claude John Eyre ("The Auk") Auchinleck. The Auk decided to plug Rommel at the neck of a funnel-the 35-mile gap between El Alamein on the coast and the northern tongue of the steep-sided, marsh-bedded Qattara Depression.* El Alamein is 70 miles from Alexandria...
...kick an Englishman in the stomach today, in the teeth tomorrow and on his behind the day after, he will be unable to stand it. His command cannot adapt itself to such measures...
...Confidential war work" was an attraction that drew 309 to sign up for duty with the First Interceptor Command. Their work will presumably include reporting and plotting of planes over Boston...
...Alaska publisher journeyed to Seattle and San Francisco to appeal to General DeWitt's Fourth Army Command...