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Report from Crete. Off to a belated start in October 1941, the U.S. glider program was forced into being by public and military outcry after the German air conquest of Crete; British opinion also demanded a big glider force. Later reports on Crete cooled this enthusiasm so far as the military was concerned; it appeared that Nazi paratroops and transport planes had done the real damage while their gliders had suffered brutal losses (best estimate: 50%). U.S. officers now think the Germans misused their gliders, flying them directly onto British airfields and strong points instead of landing troops near...
...request of Colonel L. O. Grice of the QMC, a group of Harvard and Alpine Clubbers organized a joint testing expedition of static and mobile equipment. The Crimson Mountaineers had used photographs of Army Observers, have been landed by bombers, and have been parachuted food in their conquest of various mountains in Alaska...
...Journal that they have just published includes stories about the scaling of Mt. Hayes in 1941, an expedition to Peru, the conquest of Mt. Bertha in Alaska, and the trek up Mt. Walsh and Mt. Wood in Yukon territory...
...this did not presage an imminent invasion of Australia. On political grounds, such an invasion would not fit into the Japanese pattern of conquest: Australia is a white man's land, and if Japan moves forward again, it is more likely to be in the direction of India, where Asiatics might be persuaded that they want Asia for themselves. Militarily it would call for tremendous expenditures, at a time when Japan must dig in on a long periphery. Raids and smaller invasions along the Allied supply line to Australia would cost less and avail almost as much. Even Australians...
...story of Colonel Stephen Watts Kearny's conquest of the Southwest is more epic and just as robust. Kearny had volunteer trouble too. As he boarded a steamboat before the start of his expedition, he ordered the sentry not to let the volunteers follow him. But they stormed the gangplank. Cried one of the new conquistadors, slapping his commander on the back: "You don't git off from us, old hoss! For by Ingin corn we'll go plum through fire and thunder with you. What'll you drink, General? Don't be back...