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...Commando leader, 29-year-old Major K. R. S. Trevor, sent his men probing for information about Nazi defenses in that likely invasion sector. Commando machine guns and anti-tank guns, brought ashore in parts and quickly assembled, silenced a German pillbox. Rattled Nazis fired at each other. Nazi tracers lanced out toward the barges and naval-escort vessels, waiting offshore. The British spotted two German patrol vessels, sank one and set another blazing. Some members of the Commando kept up a covering fire from the beach; others slashed the German barbed wire, knifed, shot and clubbed German sentries. Farther...
...said, they destroyed 610 Russian planes, lost 53.) By the Russian account, the Nazis had scattered the bulk of the Luftwaffe across the face of Russia, on airdromes just behind the forward lines. Thus they exposed themselves to continuous Russian harassment. But they could give their troops in each sector some air support during the engagements of winter and spring, then mass in any chosen sector for a concentrated assault...
Australia is in equal danger, writes Colonel Knerr, because the New Zealand sector has been taken away from General MacArthur. "[General MacArthur is in] 'supreme command,' . . . but actually is dependent on a naval man who doesn't take orders from him in a vital portion of his area...
...until it gives 90 days notice, the Navy is establishing here one of three radio training centers. Each school will have a potential capacity of 1000 officers in staggered six-month courses with 125 men in each section. They will be barracked in Freshman dormitories beginning in the sector of Hollis, Stoughton, Holworthy, and Thayer and ultimately overflowing southward. President Conant's house, which he is vacating after Commencement, will be used as headquarters both for the new school and the Naval ROTC unit. The active officers will eat in the Freshman Union...
Civilian-defense authorities decided that Sector 21, a residential area in Syracuse's southwest corner, had been heavily bombed. Boy Scouts were designated as wounded persons; each wore a card listing specific injuries. Ladies of the motor corps of Syracuse's Red Cross chapter bustled around, read the cards, applied appropriate first aid. From one front porch came blood-curdling screams and moans, persisting for a flat 30 seconds. Interested spectators noted that the Boy Scout who sirened these yells then retired to the back of the porch, consulted two fellow Scouts over a wristwatch. At regular five...