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Boyd's plane was forced down by Italian fighters which intercepted it near Sicily enroute to Cairo, where Boyd was to become second in command of the Royal Air Force in the Middle East. The Air Ministry in London confirmed the capture...
...have its 17,000-20,000 annual rate of production by next year. But 1942 will be the first year when P. & W. will have its full operating rate for a whole twelvemonth, will actually produce that many engines. U. S. defense production last week was still under the command of General Time...
...Command of this fury was in the hands of a strangely mild aristocrat. General Alexander Papagos, whose thin face and batwing ears bear a striking resemblance to those of Spain's ex-King Alfonso, inherited from one of Greece's first families a gentle education and gentler manners. But he seemed to give his troops both courage and the initiative of which upsets are made...
...night last week dozens of British warplanes droned over Switzerland on their way to bomb northern Italy. Antiaircraft batteries opened fire and the Swiss High Command claimed to have dispersed one squadron. Next day the Government made a second energetic, but futile, protest to London. The High Command took more effective action, ordered the entire country blacked out from 10 o'clock every night until dawn. The Swiss explained that instead of compelling respect for their neutrality, normal lighting had guided pilots on their...
...marines in columns of fives, Captain James Roosevelt marched them to the place where the battalion was lining up. At the proper spot he barked: "Halt! Left Face!" Executing the order with precision, they came to a halt exactly in the battalion front, buttocks toward the major in command, faces to a concrete wall. Quickly Captain Jimmy, summoning all his military experience (until Aug. 1: three weeks of active duty at Quantico, Va.; one night a week drill, several hours a week of administrative duty), squeaked "About Face," while seasoned sergeants winced, looked down their noses...