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...Virginian set off with an advance patrol. He called back: "You'll see me in Saint-Lô." Through all the fighting he had said his outfit would be the first in the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: First in at Saint-L | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

Before coming to the present tour of shore duty, Lt. Comdr. Havemeyer commanded a patrol craft and destroyer escort, with operations in both the Atlantic and Pacific...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Officers Swell Naval Tactics Department's Staff | 7/21/1944 | See Source »

...same, said Volf, holds true for drunks. He declared that he had found from careful observation that helpless drunks always walk east, fall down when they try to walk west. A drunk, Volf noted further, will resist entering a car or patrol wagon when it faces west but climb aboard willingly if it faces east. And he is much easier to lift to his feet if he faces east. Another useful tip: some drunks only fight facing eastward. Volf advice: "The fight may be avoided if the opponent will cause the intoxicant to face westward. This impels the intoxicant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eastward the Tots and Sots | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...last eight months, Sikorsky has produced 30 helicopters for the Materiel Command of the Army Air Forces. The ships have been tested in Burma, evacuating wounded from the jungles; in patrol work along the Atlantic coast; in Alaska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Here to Stay | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

When a bystander asked "What's going on?" a policeman replied, "These kids are going to beat up those niggers." But the advancing column hesitated, began to fall back. Soon patrol cars of the metropolitan district police arrived and helped break the mob into smaller groups. A few "dele gates" fired a salvo of rocks, breaking a police car window. Small squads raced through back alleys hunting for Negroes. By morning, Cambridge had subsided into uneasy peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Trouble in Cambridge | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

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