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From the bridge of the destroyer it had seemed to me we were just having target practice with our five inch guns, but that feeling of relaxation did not last long. Suddenly a brilliant parade of parachute flares began their slow descent above us, and we knew that enemy planes were overhead...
Brooklyn, home of Dodgerism, target of radio comedians,* and a maze to Manhattan taxi drivers, is also a city of unsubmissive businessmen. In 1935 Brooklyn's four poultry-marketing Schechter brothers defied the National Recovery Administration, and the Supreme Court threw NRA out in the famed "sick chicken" case. Last week a Brooklyn shipbuilder, Bernard A. Moran, became the first U.S. employer to challenge the War Labor Board's powers under the new Connally-Smith-Harness anti-strike...
...First Men. The paratroops, fit and bulky as bears in their equipment, got a final briefing just before take-off time. They knew their assignments. Some of the leading pilots had already been over the target to have a look at the lay of the land. The jumpers climbed into their planes, listened quietly as the colonel in command gave a refresher talk on things to bear in mind during the jump. In one of the planes was Photographer Robert Capa (Collier's) who took pictures and later described the flight to a TIME correspondent...
Soon they were halfway to the target, bumping through rough air over the Mediterranean. Some of the men got sick. The men knew that they, a handful only, must plant a cancer amidst the enemy and make it grow. They knew this even before the colonel spoke: "Well, boys, we are truly the first men of America tonight. We will be the first to land in Axis Europe. For hours & hours we will be alone. There will be enemies all around us and over our heads. We must do our best." Then, offhandedly, he added: "We are headed for Sicily...
Shilling's Lookouts. This is one of the ways lookouts for submarines are selected and trained. Lookout duty, once a punishment, is now so important that the men get extra privileges. All day the submarine on war patrol waits and watches at its undersurface station, hoping for a target. At night it sidles off to surface and charge its batteries. Wallowing at "slow ahead," a sub is doubly vulnerable in the dark. Quick-eyed night lookouts are prized...