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...Fortresses and Liberators precisely planted bombs in Wilhelmshaven and Brest. By night R.A.F. Sterlings and Lancasters pattern-bombed Cologne and St. Nazaire. German targets were getting around-the-clock pounding such as they had never had before...
Instead the Rangers are picked for intelligence and endurance. Like Commando recruits, about 50% of them fail the course and are sent back to their old units. The survivors fit no common pattern. Commander of the Rangers now in training is slight, friendly Major Randolph Milholland, 36, onetime cost accountant from Cumberland, Md. One of his captains, Lloyd Marr, 31, of Lamesa, Tex., trained in civilian life by working up statistics for the U.S. Treasury Department. In commando training, bulk and muscle are assets. But the training-wise instructors know they are not indispensable. A stout heart counts most...
...trail of phosphorescence bubbled whitely across the black sea off Guadalcanal. A New Zealand patrol boat, spotting the glow in the night, changed her course, ran down the telltale trail and dropped a pattern of depth bombs...
From London, Governor Sir Arthur Richards last week returned to his turbulent post in Jamaica. In his briefcase he carried plans for reform which may well set a pattern for British colonial administration when the war is over...
Late in the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Briggsy was writing a letter from the Leverett home #n Beacon Street. Jim had just received Back Bay's accolade in Symphony Hall, where he had spoken about "the pattern of freedom, the quality of integrity, and the brand of honor which have been yours-and mine." He was out for a bitter, retrospective walk along the Esplanade, where he and Mary, 20 years ago, had seen his future so clearly, when Briggsy concluded...