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...Adjutant. The Commandant's right-hand man is greying, diligent Major A. (for Aloysius) G. Casey, who since 1920 has held every enlisted and commissioned army grade from private to field officer. Originally an ack-ack man in the Massachusetts National Guard Coast Artillery, with which he entered Federal service as a battery commander in September, 1940, he has served at Deer Island, Ft. Standish, Ft. Banks, Fortress Monroe, and half a dozen other stations on the Atlantic seaboard. An alumnus of both the Coast Artillery School and of the Adjutant General's School, he was one of the first...
Around the Robinsons perambulate some 60 other typically British characters. There is plenty of: "The blinkin' ack-ack's got 'im. The bandit's in the drink." There is plenty of "Coo, 'ere comes a blinkin' bomb." The tortoise-paced plot is full of information about England's home front...
High over the capital of the Reich droned planes of the R.A.F. Swift, light Mosquito bombers, in the first daytime raid on Berlin, were dodging ack-ack, fighting off the few fighters of the astonished Luftwaffe and raining 500-lb. bombs on a now noisy and exploding city...
Important changes are taking place in the kinds of munitions ordered. There will be fewer tanks, ack-ack guns, ammunition; more planes, merchant ships and naval escort vessels. For example, the original 1943 tank program (75,000) has been cut about half, while the hope is to double aircraft and shipbuilding output. This shift in military strategy has caused a great many dislocations, some of them now surmounted. For instance...
...planes to fly lower, bomb more accurately. He invented this bomb in 1928, but it was never used until last September, when he dropped 240 of them on the Japanese at Buna. Twenty-two Jap planes were standing on the strip; 17 of them were destroyed and all the ack-ack in the area was silenced...