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...guns blasted regularly, closer to the target, now directly on it. Aboard the Spencer, after the first wild confusion, there was order, but out in the blinding sunlight and on the glittering blue water there was death. Chattering 20-mms. sent tracer patterns curving into the slowly moving submarine. On the sub's decks a few figures still moved in the storm...
...hardier unionists ventured on the "blitz course"-the mean, trying 1,000-yard obstacle trail where Rangers are toughened: through barbed wire, up cliffs, over barricades, crawling on their stomachs while tracer bullets streaked above and bombs burst around. For a final treat the Division staged a mock battle, and the weary visitors watched guns and tanks they had helped make swing into action...
...production peaks were being reached last week in magnesium, vital war metal in flares, tracer bullets, incendiary bombs (it burns) and airplane construction (it weighs a third less than aluminum). Magnesium figures are smoked with secrecy. But that there is a magnesium boom was clear from the remarks of WPB's magnesium production chief Philip Danforth Wilson in Mining & Metallurgy: "Of all the metals in the war program the demand for and production of magnesium have increased percentagewise the most. . . . 1939 production was 3,350 tons; the war program now provides for nearly 100 times, that amount annually...
...fast enough; you're crawling over that target. You've got to level off and fly straight to drop those bombs, but you'd rather do anything than give those gunners a straight shot at you. You level off and hang on. Tracer bullets stream up past the nose. You can see them coming a long way off and they come so slow, so leisurely till suddenly they whizz by like miniature meteors. The light on the instrument panel blinks rapidly as the bombs are released and you are free to begin dodging again. You have...
...starboard. At three-quarters of a mile the approaching ship opened fire. Shells from 8-in. guns tore into the cargo vessel, quickly putting its deck guns out of action. Torpedoes from the deck tubes of the attacker plowed through the sea. On the victim's port side, tracer bullets slashed the darkness...