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Three days later, Hart, who detests flying, left on a 28,000-mile trip by bomber. Into two months he had to pack the experience of 15. Using a fake name and wearing a phony uniform, he tasted basic training in Mississippi, sampled college training in Missouri, took classification tests in California. He wound up his training when the nose of his companions' ship "pointed south-for combat...
...boat pack was somewhere around. Off tootled the old (1919) four-stack destroyer Borie, found a sub. Her straining, aged sides shook as her depth charges burst...
...began last spring, the small Dixie Market in little Ypsilanti, Mich. (1940 pop. 12,000), hard by the Willow Run bomber plant, has done a big city business. For 10½| hours a day, seven clerks hustle to fill the grocery orders of the 4,000 customers who jam-pack the store every week. Yet the store has never collected a ration stamp from a customer. For the Dixie Market deals only in unrationed groceries...
...fighting took place on this war's loftiest battleground-10,000 ft. above sea level. Foot soldiers crawled up steep trails, through barbed, prickly grass. They used grenades, rifles, and mountain guns; they panted for breath and belabored pack animals. The advantage lay with the Japs, in whose rear good motor roads fed supplies and reinforcements. Behind the Chinese, communications were slow and tortuous...
Probably no similar stretch of land in all the world is so crowded with historic ruins, sterile and clean beneath the desert dust. Through oases in Turkestan, over one of the master roads of history, wound caravans and pack trains that linked the West and East. To Europe went silks from the Orient; to China came furs, jade and treasured goods from lands beyond the Wall. From these lands burst out great nomad hordes (Huns, Mongols, Turks) that time & again had devastated both civilized Europe and the capitals of China...