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After 65 days the Navy had let it be known that three U.S. cruisers had been sunk, taken unawares at night and potted like ducks. The step-by-step victory campaign back up through the Pacific Islands wobbled dangerously on the first step. Then this week came a shock: news (41 days late) of the sinking of another precious aircraft carrier, the Wasp...
Suddenly one lanky Russian seized a tank-mine, hugged it to his chest and threw himself in front of an advancing tank. Three came on. At the apartment-house door they let out their shock troops, who fought their way to the staircase...
When Luftwaffe pilots first met the Fortresses, they had a brutal shock. Used to sitting beyond the short range of .30-caliber guns and potting British bombers with their light aircraft cannon, Messerschmitt and Fw-190 pilots found themselves in heavy fire as they approached the U.S. bombers. For a while U.S. commanders had trouble persuading their gunners to fire when the Germans were many hundreds of yards away: the gunners, unused to their high-velocity, long-range weapons, had been trained to wait too long. But they soon learned better, and Fortresses knocked down at least 48 German fighters...
...That it is extensive and the largest on record is no tribute to its name. A country that sets for itself the double goal of developing into a world arsenal and defending itself from two relentless enemies needs maximum financial support if the home front is to withstand the shock and the arsenal to become a reality. The trouble is the measure is not strong enough. The Congress after seven months of dilly-dallying and haggling has given the country a half-baked, business as usual, partisan tax bill, and this after eleven months of global...
...shock of Dunkirk, the draft of 1940, the muddled rush to house the new army for its first winter, the first flow of the young men from their homes, schools, farms, jobs, into a peace time army whose reason for being was far from plain to many of its recruits?of all these things, and more, the army was born. There were the months when OHIO, chalked on latrine walls, meant "over the hill in October," and many of the young men cursed George Marshall, the President, the Congress which (by a House vote of 203-to-202) extended their...