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While the Navy stresses education and so will probably not call out the V-1 as the Army may the E.R.C., it does require a screen-out examination after the end of the Sophomore year. Students must prepare by studying college physics and math, and by acquiring a knowledge of trigonometry...
...brightened the hard lot of Laurence Edmund ("Larry") Allen, if he heard it. The A.P.'s and the U.S.'s most embattled foreign correspondent was apparently a prisoner of war. He was aboard the British destroyer Sikh when she went down in Tobruk harbor, laying a smoke screen for the withdrawal. The U.P.'s George Palmer, only other U.S. correspondent accompanying the naval task force, escaped...
...east until it reaches about 240 ft. above sea level, then falls away sharply in a few miles to the Volga, which at Stalingrad is 40 ft. below sea level.* The few ravines dividing the plain are knee-deep brooks. There are no forests such as help to screen Moscow. The Nazis had merely to cross the plain between two rivers. Sprawling along the Volga for 25-miles, Stalingrad's shoestring outline provides not even a compact area to defend. A break-through at any point could cut the defending forces...
Occasionally a squadron of Jap bombers broke through the U.S. fighter screen, reached the Allied warships, but in almost every case were driven off without doing serious damage. Allied planes also broke through. But they accounted for one small carrier (set afire), damaged a bigger carrier, landed heavy bombs on a battleship and heavy cruisers...
...combat scenes are better, because battling machines and anonymous faces under stress carry an impact no self-conscious actor can give. When enemy planes swirl like gulls to machine-gun a helpless, bailed-out pilot, or when the screen is hammered full of recoiling guns, pressure dials, the disciplined metal of the air, and spasmodic twisted faces, Wake Island becomes a moving effort to record an action on a heroic scale...