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Psychoneurosis is the 1943 name for World War I's shell shock. But it goes much further. Psychoneurotics who have never heard a shot fired in anger are now being discharged from the Army (current strength: 5,500,000) at the rate of 1,000 a week. The Army's explanations: 1) lack of emotional elasticity in men who want to be unafraid but are driven to nervous crack-ups by uncontrollable subconscious fear; 2) soldiers' anxiety about their families; 3) their lack of ability to adjust themselves to Army regimentation; 4) inability to stand the physical...
...attacks so close that bombs can be seen falling from the bomb bays. Again & again enemy planes, machine guns spitting, dive head on at the camera. The camera shows the results: Allied trucks flaring up in brilliant orange and red flame, wounded soldiers being picked up, men milling in shock...
Watching the Thala battle, Drew Middleton of the New York Times wrote: "British [tank] units sustained the first shock, then counterattacked heavily. All this time the American guns in the hills were sounding a somber song of frustration for the enemy. Supported by infantry that had been heavily bombed on its way to the front, the Germans continued their efforts to break through until night fell. . . . "Broken guns and burned-out tanks were strewn across the sandy plain and the knobby hills. The ground was dotted with the bodies of men. . . . By this morning the fighting had died down...
Their thick skins are double, with oil compartments between to absorb the shock of depth charges, which must explode within 20 ft. of them to blast open their hides. They can crash dive in seconds, submerge to 100 fathoms (600 ft.), resist with safety the pressure of more than 19 tons per square foot. On the surface they can shoulder through the sea at 20 knots, driven by great 2,800-h.p. diesel engines. On their bows is a quick-firing gun big enough to enable them to engage Allied corvettes in surface action. U-boat production...
...first time I moved with a well-defined sense of hazard. The others, who knew more, had probably felt it all along. . . . You were on the receiving end, and you could not see the thing about to strike you. A few feet farther along I got the shock for which I thought I had braced myself. . . . Just beyond the turn lay a dead Marine. . . . Colonel Frisbie . . . was right...