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It was a big day for the whole division. General Patton had ordered his 10,000 men and officers, his 1,200 vehicles (tanks, scout cars, trucks, motorcycles, etc.) to put on the division's first full review since the Second was created last July. Purpose: to see how...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Company D and The Old Man | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

Japan is not fighting a united nation in China, but a restless coalition of Nationalists and Communists. Without the help of the Communist armies Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek cannot hope to defeat Japan. But Chiang must not pay so dearly for their help that, in the event of a victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chiang and the Communists | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

The Finance Minister obliged by tendering his resignation last week. He made it stick in spite of Acting President Ramón S. Castillo's refusal to accept it. Juan Pueblo was not sure whether the resignation was a confession of defeat or a maneuver to pose as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Juan Pueblo Smells Trouble | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

Here again his plane was badly shot up but this time was partly controllable. Rather than bail out and allow the airplane to crash and kill residents . . . Hope attempted to maneuver to an open space and lost his life in this heroic undertaking.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 13, 1941 | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

The occasion marked the latest tests of the Marines' newest fighting machine, no screwball toy but the result of seven years of trial & error by 325-pound Sportsman-Inventor Donald Roebling. Originally conceived by Wire Ropeman John A. Roebling as a vessel of mercy and rescue in time of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Swimming Tractor | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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