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...brief, there is hardly a front where the United Nations are fighting -from the water-logged trenches along the Yangtze to the frozen steppes above Rostov, from pea-soup air above the North Sea to the deserts of Africa and the steaming jungles of New Guinea and Guadalcanal-but what at least one of TIME'S writers in New York can tell you first hand just what it feels like to be there with our fighting men, and fill in the cables from TIME'S regular correspondents from their own personal knowledge of the battlefronts of this...
...Langers had tea for breakfast and, being both provident and well-heeled, a thin slice of bread each. At noon they had cabbage soup. At night they had it again. All they could normally buy was cabbage, which was raised in every vacant lot; and horse meat. Once they got a "terribly skinny" pigeon, his wing broken by shrapnel. The children ate it "with shouts of joy." Rulka chewed the bones...
...boat, oxcart, automobile, train and plane. Captain Clarence E. McPherson, later killed in Australia, once landed on an airdrome before he knew the Japs had seized it, but realized his mistake before the Japs did. The 19th's best-beloved character, a Portuguese-accented master sergeant named Louis ("Soup") Silva, now buried in an Australian grave, shot down three Japanese Zeros while trying to explain to a private how a gun should be aimed...
...better time in Paris. She shopped, saw the Chamber of Deputies ("superb . . . the French have so much taste"). Daughter Julia bought a "superb" dessert set. The W.'s dined with King Louis Philippe and the Queen ("Very superb. The King helps the soup . . . and the Queen the fish"). Then they flitted back to London where they saw a new play called Love, a Melo Drama ("The thunder storm, where her lover . . . was slightly stunned . . . was very pretty...
Master Sergeant Louis T. ("Soup") Silva, aged 47, who won the Distinguished Service Cross for shooting down at least three Japanese Zeros over Java (TIME, April 20), had long been considered No. 1 anomaly in an Air Force whose combat crews' average age is under 25. After fabulous Gunner Silva's death in the accidental crash of a Flying Fortress in Australia last July, oldsters apparently lost their toe hold in the Air Forces. But last week in London a lean, grizzled, Fortress tailgunner aged 44 turned up: Staff Sergeant Merril W. Gilger, World War I Field Artillery...