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...Navy do not want colorblind men, weed them out with color cards composed of varicolored dot patterns. Those who flunk color tests and go to doctors get various kinds of handling: some doctors give no treatment at all ("color blindness is not curable"); others try everything but the kitchen sink. At the Optometric Extension Foundation, Duncan, Okla., 25% of the young colorblind men who took vitamin A and practiced looking at lights through red and green lenses got good enough to pass Air Corps tests in three weeks...
Physiotherapist Cadan belongs to the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink school of thought. In the current Medical Record he reports that he used electrical stimulation of eye muscles (two volts, one milliampere to each eye, 15 minutes three times a week), 75,000 units of vitamin A daily (to stimulate formation of visual purple-a pigment in the retina), daily injections of one-half cc. of vitamin B complex (for nerve vitality), five drops of iodine by mouth daily (to stimulate body metabolism), red & green glasses, training with colored cards...
...bomber, droning through the Arctic sky one day last week, spotted a Japanese freighter where no Jap freighter ought to be. Said the Navy's laconic communiqué: "The ship was left burning and was later seen to sink." The Navy offered no conjecture as to what the ship was doing 110 miles north and east of Kiska, in the Bering...
Sergei Korokov and his wife, Natasha, lived in a Russian village that was overrun by the Nazi Army. Sergei got orders to join the local force of Russian guerrillas. Escaping from his village, he killed a Nazi sentry, "felt the blade sink downward easily." To reach the guerrillas he had to shoot one German ("his body . . . rolled silently"), then-another ("his body crumpled...
...look for the Tokyo Express (enemy warships coming down from Bougainville for night landing operations). Just before 4 p.m. they sighted six destroyers in parallel columns. Lou Kirn led nine' SBDs out to intercept them. Kirn, Weary and Frank got hits; one destroyer was seen to sink, another was left floundering. Forty minutes later Purdum and Russell led six more SBDs out and finished off a third destroyer. But the three remaining destroyers came on, so from time to time during the night eleven SBDs took off to drop flares and heckle them with night dives as they tried...