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...them, that they are kept lake-worthy mainly by the heroic ingenuity of their soldier crews. The soldiers who run the boats call them the third-ocean fleet. They are the supply boats of one of the finest, least-known outfits in the U.S. Army: the Panama Coast Artillery Command...
...German shock troops added that of flamethrowers, but the answering heat of British artillery exploded the flame-throwing apparatus, stopped the tanks, and squeezed the breakthrough into a small sac. The difference between the futile Italian and the furious British defense of Tobruch was not just a matter of command of the sea. The Italians used fixed artillery, which could fire outwards only, so that after a breakthrough the whole ring of emplacements was useless; the British, with movable guns, stayed at their posts after the breakthrough and trained cross fire inwards on the attackers...
South of Sardinia, Axis warplanes came out to meet this formidable group. Next day's Italian papers ran ecstatic accounts of the engagement. Lavoro Fascista called it "A Black Day for the British Navy." The High Command claimed hits on two battleships, an aircraft carrier, two cruisers, a destroyer and three merchantmen. Next day German bombers attacked again south of Malta and claimed hits. When the convoy had had time to get out of danger, the British denied that a single vessel had been hit. Rome admitted that British warships (possibly going out from Alexandria to meet the convoy...
Meanwhile George VI's Bomber Command, under aggressive Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, has been expanding its program all along, until one night last week it was reported that over 300 planes had been sent out to enemy territory-almost as many as the Germans were using over Britain. But it still remained to be seen whether the R.A.F. would be able to make night mass raids almost as expensive as day raids, and perhaps too expensive. If they did, it was likely that the Germans might perfect a similar technique, and the war in the air might become...
When the first raw conscript soldiers drifted in last fall at Fort Jackson, S.C., Major General Henry D. Russell, in command of the post, was appalled at the number of them who could neither read nor write. Before long he had on his hands some 600 total illiterates. General Russell got in touch with WPA. Result: at Fort Jackson last week elementary classes, taught by WPA teachers, were going full blast, and an Army education program had spread from coast to coast...