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This was not Tunisia, but Fort Knox, Ky. Raiders were the Nazi Platoon-30 German-speaking, noncommissioned Armored Forcemen who prey on trainees out on long marches and overnight maneuvers. Faces blackened, signaling among themselves by owl hoots, the raiders fire blanks, use whistle bombs. The platoon averages five day or night raids a week. It specializes in mess sergeants (thereby canceling dinner) and tired stragglers...
...airborne attack was launched from Campbell Field, Ky., 100 miles northwest of the battlefield. In the grey mist big transports thundered down the runways closely spaced, each plane crammed with paratroops and each towing a bulky Army glider...
Into Danger. Flying hospital personnel, including doctors, enlisted men and nurses are trained at Bowman Field, Ky. But some nurses have made successful flights before going to school to learn how. Nurse Elsie S. Ott got the Air Medal for her pioneering trip from India to the U.S. (her first time in the air) bringing five seriously ill patients. She went to school afterwards...
...Corps posts that one or another of our Army & Navy reporters has not visited for you in the past three years-in the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, Great Britain, Australia or the Hawaiians. They have looped in gliders at Twentynine Palms, sweated in tanks at Fort Knox, Ky., slid in the snow with the ski troopers on Mt. Rainier. They have visited scores of aircraft factories, tank arsenals and munitions plants-spent hours and even days in the testing laboratories and on the firing ranges -sailed on some of our biggest war ships...
Last week his American friends finally learned what 47-year-old Captain James Arthur Kehoe, peacetime tobacco farmer, stove manufacturer and general trader of Maysville, Ky., had been up to. He had been surveying the jungle, dickering with the savage Naga headhunters of the region, and setting up a series of vital military outposts in the trackless country between the U.S. air bases in northern Assam and Jap advance lines in Burma...