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...German High Command last week claimed it had taken up another notch in Britain's belt-by sinking eleven merchantmen out of a convoy of twelve plodding toward Britain off the African coast. In these eleven ships, the Nazis boasted, were cargoes which would have filled 5,500 freight cars-enough food to feed a city like Hull for seven months...
MOSCOW, Thursday--Russian naval planes have shot down 10 German airplanes and three gliders over the Black Sea, the high command reported today, revealing Germany's first use of gliders since the invasion of Crete...
...German High Command admitted last week that the German Army and Air Force had so far suffered 402,865 casualties in Russia. Of these, 85,896 were reported killed, 296,670 wounded, 20,299 missing...
Dargue's airmen bombed the daylights out of Ben Lear's rear-area supplies (including gasoline for the tanks) as far back as Shreveport. Support aviation, including dive-bombers from the Navy (under Army command), blasted at tanks, then blew up the bridges across the Red River. Meanwhile the Red tanks had been stopped, and the gaps they had made plugged up by sweating infantrymen...
...operations all were fitted out with officers' uniforms. Each was supplied with a map of the 30,000-square-mile maneuver area-a map about the size of a bedspread (most of them found common road maps much handier). They were also supplied with free transportation-jeeps, command cars or ordinary taxis (hired by the Army at $10 a day). Then they were turned loose to try and find out what war was like...