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...defenseless creatures is totally absent from most, and I sincerely hope from all, of us. Rather, as perfectly obvious from shop talk in any group involving as many as two biologists, we entertain rather marked affection and often great respect for the animals it is necessary for us to destroy...
...first stages, the third offensive was in effect an extension of the drive to relieve Stalingrad. But as the Russian thrust widened, it also became an effort to destroy the Germans' entire system of communications and supply in the Ukraine, to endanger Axis forces both in the Don-Volga area and in the Caucasus. The great object of the Red Army's winter strategy was now clear: to slice up the Germans' winter lines, keep the Wehrmacht on the defensive from Rzhev to the Caucasus...
...North Africa, P-38s destroyed 20 Italian troop transports, three other planes, eleven tanks in a couple of days. Against Germany's Messerschmitt 109-G and the Focke-Wulf 190, the P-38s had scored "about even," which prompted Air Forces Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold to predict: "If we can continue to destroy the Germans plane for plane, the result cannot long be in doubt because our production is at least double the German production...
Best new children's game is Ranger Commandos, a parchesi-type in which little barges set out across open water, zigzag to landings, and move little wooden commando pieces inland to destroy such objectives as a tank factory, railroad yards, munitions plant, etc. Players return posthaste, unless captured, whenever any player lands on a spot marked with an enemy sentry. First one back with the most points of destruction wins...
...Tactics two players face each other across a map on which each maneuvers land, sea and air forces over water and land to capture his opponent's Naval Base or Headquarters ("H.Q."). In general, the major pieces destroy the minor ones, which are removed from the board. Planes and destroyers, working in teams, blast open beachheads after fleet actions; troops land and fight through screens of delaying actions that gradually become major land battles. And a player who has lost a battle because he has inadequate reinforcements, or who was brilliantly outmaneuvered by a lesser force, is likely...