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...Japanese consider that the main function of the Navy, besides defending the home islands, is to pave and patrol safe sea roads to the Empire's outposts. In the realm of strategy the Japanese Navy is the Army's handmaiden. The Navy commits its ships for the most part in direct support of land operations and supply lines...
...doctors manage to function even behind German lines, secretly patch many guerrillas...
...different principle. Exactly how it works is still a military secret (at least one of the instruments has fallen into Axis hands, but its inventors believe it will take Axis scientists years to figure it out). Its basic parts are a triangular set of coils and a gyroscope. The function of the gyroscope (which spins at 10,000 revolutions a minute) is simply to keep the instrument level during a plane's turns and lunges. The coils, which replace the needle in the old compass, pick up currents from the earth's magnetic field. This energy is converted...
...Spring-Summer" issue of the Advocate proves that a literary magazine can have a function in wartime. Dedicated to Soviet writing, this number of America's oldest college literary publication presents material of interest both to the uninitiate and to those better acquainted with our ally's artistic effort...
...year capped by Salerno and Emden, the Army Air Forces, just finishing off a phenomenal growth of 3,500% in two years (and now bigger than the U.S. Navy), had written a book of tactics, proved new aircraft, broadened the functions of older types. So had the U.S. naval air arm, but on a scale proportionate to its smaller size, its more limited function as a supporting weapon of the fleet...