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...howitzer mounted on a medium-tank chassis, which helped beat Rommel. Because of a pulpitlike antiaircraft mount, the British call it The Priest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: School for Amateurs | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

Often-and eloquently-it speaks Japanese. Because short-wave reception has been banned in Japan, XGOY talks to its foe (by relay) through China's most powerful medium-wave station XPRA at Kunming. Some of the broadcasters are Chinese who were born or raised in Japan. But the most potent are anti-imperial Japanese taken prisoner by the Chinese armies. They are men who have convinced themselves that only a common cause with the Chinese can save the people of Japan. Their fiery opposition is not restricted to the Japanese militarists; it is directed also at the Emperor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: China Speaks Japanese | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

...program director and prime mover is balding, begoggled U.S.-educated Peng "Mike" Lo-shan. Eleven hours a day he and his polylingual staff tell the world about China's war in 14 languages and dialects. U.S. propagandists, who cannot reach the Japanese people by short wave or Australian medium wave, are much impressed with the Voice of China. Last week Director Peng Lo-shan was en route to the U.S. to discuss more ways of propagandizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: China Speaks Japanese | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

...Russians in occupied territory who were overwhelmed before they could turn in their sets, the Germans provide powerful medium-wave propaganda out of Smolensk, Kharkov, Odessa. These stations lure listeners with a vast amount of Russian religious music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Speaking of Russia | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...record are his fellow Guadalcanal Marine flyers, Major John Lucian Smith (19) and Captain Marion B. Carl (16), but Foss still has not equaled the 26-plane score of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker in World War I. Joseph Jacob Foss, 27 years old, single, dark-haired and ruddy, medium big (5 ft. 10½ in., 182 lb.), is still under the score of the late Squadron Leader "Paddy" Finucane (32) and Wing Commander Adolph Gysbert Malan (35) and astronomically distant from legendary German Captain Manfred von Richthofen's 80, British Major Edward Mannock's 73, Billy Bishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: No. 1 Ace | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

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