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...Piat does not employ the bazooka's rocket principle. Its projectile, like a mortar shell, is propelled by the explosion of a cartridge in the base. Rear half of the tube houses a powerful steel spring which takes up the recoil, re-cocks itself and operates the firing pin for the next shot. In combat the 33-lb. Piat is handled by a two-man team, one to aim and fire, the other to haul ammunition and reload...
...Lifeboat first occurred to Director Alfred Hitchcock. John Steinbeck wrote the idea into a story (still unpublished). With Hitchcock's help, Scripter Jo Swerling wrote the story into a screen play. The cinematic problems involved in keeping nine characters and their story dancing for two hours upon the pin point of one lifeboat were staggering. Result: a remarkably intelligent picture, almost totally devoid of emotion. Its characters are not so much real people, derelict upon a real sea, as they are a set of propositions in a theorem. Their story is an adroit allegory of world shipwreck...
...Vinegar Joe" could see, nothing had gone wrong. Under his eye, the Chinese fought well. Their artillery mor tars laid down effective cross fire on Jap trenches, the infantry charged bravely with grenades and rifles. One Chinese soldier penetrated a Jap dugout and, pulling the pin in his grenade, blew himself and three Japs to kingdom come. In four days the Chinese killed an estimated 300 Japs, drove the rest south. Jubilant Chinese presented Stilwell with a captured Samurai sword. Jubilant Stilwell returned to India...
Robinson and his four staffers are as casual about battle dangers as a weekly's reporter covering the Sunday-school cake sale. Sample reportage: "Staff Sergeant Oscar Duebec pulled the pin from a grenade he was about to hurl with his right hand when he was wounded in the left hand. Perplexed, he decided to walk to the aid station, keeping the grenade immobilized by continuing to grasp the lever in his right palm. Anxious medics hurriedly stitched the wound, whereupon Duebec walked back . . . relieved everyone by chucking the grenade into enemy positions...
Jacqueline White, cousin of Frank Knox, started collecting honors. For her pint-sized pin-up pictures she was proclaimed the Wallet Girl of the 13th Armored Division...