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...street. Their reasons: to be near the Joneses, to get more sun in the living room, an extra bedroom for Junior, a bigger garden, lower rent-or restlessness. This year more U.S. families will move than ever before, and they will move farther. The cross-country trek to inland defense centers was 50% greater this spring than...
...incredible, bloody hours, American fighting men-marines, sailors, U.S. and Filipino soldiers-grappled for Corregidor. The island's death rattle could be heard far inland...
...identify stars, take sun and star sights and determine ship's position. Use dead reckoning radio bearings and soundings as navigational aids, and interpret weather signals. Send and receive international Code by blinker, searchlight and semaphore, and identify all Navy signal flags and pennants. Know the international and local inland rules of the road, and the rules governing the display of the American and other flags...
...crews waded ashore from ships off Labrador, cut down trees and built rafts to float their first equipment ashore, then built a corduroy causeway to the ships, then hauled enough tools and material ashore to build a dock. Afterward, in 20-ft. snows, they cleared a roadway 100 miles inland, built an airport complete with runways, hangars, living quarters...
...submarine patrol. The Labrador fields, although north of the Army's bases in Newfoundland, are better off for all-year flying than those in Newfoundland. Reason: Newfoundland's persistent, plaguing fogs, which have often interrupted but never halted bomber deliveries to Britain. Even Greenland's vast, inland icecap is not the hazard which most people suppose it to be. Says the U.S. Army Air Corps Arctic Manual (published in 1940): ". . . Greenland is practically one continuous and nearly perfect landing field for planes equipped with skis. Most of the inland ice is good for wheels, too. . . ." Greenland...