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Most of the battalion's anti-tank guns had not come up. Under the first shock, it had to retreat from hill to hill, toward the sea. The battalion commander, trying to pull his companies together at the height of the German attack, was wounded. His executive officer, a young captain, had to take over. Upon him, for a tense while, the fate of the U.S. invasion rested...
Training Thunderbolt pilots is tricky business-one reason why the plane was delayed in reaching combat. There is no room for an instructor in the cockpit. The pilot is on his own in mastering speeds of 420-plus m.p.h., learning how to pull out of 680-m.p.h. power dives that can hurtle the P47 to safety when its ammunition is exhausted. In early days, many a student pilot forgot that a Thunderbolt can dive a mile in six screeching seconds, needs thousands of feet for the simplest maneuvers...
...Government was expected to include more socialistic elements. But the power was not altogether within the Government: there are rightist Poles in London without official status who pull influential strings, and the rightists in the Government have in the past exercised strength out of proportion to their number. Most visible representative of this group is President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz...
...Pull-Out. In his battered felt good-luck hat (he puts it on first thing in the morning, takes it off at bedtime), Riebel moved ponderously through the four Brewster plants (two in Long Island City, one in Newark, one in Johnsville, Pa.), shaking hands, telling everyone: "Call me Skippy." At first suspicious, workers soon got a kick out of calling the boss Skippy, got a bigger kick after he installed a huge new cafeteria in the final assembly plant at Johnsville, organized baseball teams, wangled the Government housing project for Johnsville. To get production on bombers, he balanced...
...756th at Springfield until the Army decided it needed his brain even more than it needed his brawn. This also meant his elevation to the rank of Private First Class, a distinction which might be regarded lightly in some circles, but for Leo it means he can now pull his rank on his erstwhile boss, "Lex" Thompson, who recently made Private...