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...Africa with Jimmy Doolittle. His own 12th Air Force, spawned and trained by Major General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz's 8th in Britain, toted a battalion of U.S. parachutists 1,500 miles from Britain to Oran (previous paratroops record: the Luftwaffe's 325-mile hop from Namsos to Narvik). U.S. fighter pilots in British Spitfires took off from British carriers, strafed Vichy columns and airdromes, met a few French Dewoitine fighters in Algeria. British Fleet Air Arm pilots in Albacore torpedo-bombers also fought in Algeria...
Aldridge has probably seen action with more armies on more fronts than any other correspondent in World War II. He has campaigned with the British, Australians, Finns, Norwegians, Greeks-in land, sea and air battles from Narvik to Crete-and so he knew what he was talking about when he cabled TIME that the Red soldiers are "actually better disciplined and more deadly serious about this war than the troops of any other nation-think, breathe, eat and sleep it-do not even enjoy a stay away from it. Their very camels seem to lean forward into the wind with...
...Commander Bower criticized Chief of Naval Staff Sir Dudley Pound for the conduct of the Narvik evacuation. Not content with sticking to military matters, such as the liaison, or lack of it, between the Navy and the R.A.F., the Commander talked about the Admiralty's "Gestapo methods" and said: "We are not fighting against Hitler in order to set up the First Lord of the Admiralty (A. V. Alexander) as a little pinchbeck Hitler with a tin-pot staff...
Leading these black-shrouded troops was 24-year-old Lieut. Colonel Geoffrey Charles Tasker Keyes, son of the Commandos' organizer, Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, and youngest lieutenant colonel in the British Army. A veteran of Narvik, Military Cross winner for Commando work in Syria, young Keyes with 30 men made his way to a wadi, near Sidi Raffa, Administrative H.Q. of Rommel's Afrika Corps. Here they lay for two days and nights awaiting the zero hour of the Brit ish attack. When the time came the Commandos daubed their faces with burnt cork, crawled over the desert...
...assist the visitors, the residents of one village had cut a German telegraph line in 35 places, had committed other appropriate forms of sabotage. Spreading throughout Norway was a growing conviction that Commando raids presage a mass British attempt to wrest from German hands the naval fortress of Narvik, and ultimately the whole of Norway...