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...G.I.s probably were in too much of a hurry. Methodical, plodding Krueger was in a hurry, but not too much. He did not believe in capturing territory in haste, only to lose it at the enemy's leisure. Strategically, he was out on the end of a limb-a tenuous supply line, 950 miles long, from Leyte. That was on the orders of his superior officer, MacArthur. How the Sixth Army would be supplied and maintained there was the responsibility of other men than Krueger. But within the designated area of operations how far & how fast the Sixth Army...
Treatment of men who have lost an arm or a leg has improved enormously since World War I. Then, training and fitting were so incomplete that many casualties soon threw their artificial limbs away because they were too uncomfortable. This time the Army's brisk, blue-eyed Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk (whose book, Amputations, is a surgeon's bible) got six special amputation centers started before the heavy flow of amputation cases began. He believes that with good care, and civilian understanding, no crippled veteran need think of selling pencils on street corners. Good care includes good...
Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had planned to spend Christmas at home with their families. Instead, they spent it in Greece trying to end a civil war. The long winter flight from London to Athens held hazards to life & limb. But it was the greater hazard to Britain's power & prestige that spurred Churchill to fly impetuously to Greece...
...coaxed its commentators out on a limb last week for a brave look at the year ahead. Opinions on the war, east and west, differed...
...nation's calves, is economically inevitable (already nearly one-tenth of all New Jersey calves are so bred). One incidental bene fit, he observes, is that bulls, which almost invariably become vicious after their fourth or fifth year, will be largely eliminated as a menace to life & limb in the U.S. countryside...