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...Russians also learned. They kept air patrols along the principal German supply routes, harried the Junkers with fighters and Stormovik assault planes, sought out and incessantly bombed the fields where the German transports landed. Where the German routes crossed Red Army territory, the Russians lined the way with hidden ack-ack batteries. Sometimes guerrilla ack-ack units planted batteries behind the German lines. German pilots flew through snowstorms to outwit the Russian hunters. The Luftwaffe constantly changed its routes, began to dispatch transports singly or in small groups rather than in large formations...
While at the anti-aircraft station, the Crimson contingent learned to take apart and assemble all types of ack-ack guns as well as getting experience in firing them. They also won the commendation of the station's officers by piling out of bed one night to unload a shipment of ammunition...
Lieutenant Commander William B. Dortch led the ack-ackers, with Maynard M. Miller '43 serving as assistant cruise officer...
...argument against sparing any Italian city was produced last week by the Italian press. Mussolini's own Popolo d'ltalia reported that the people of ravaged Turin welcomed the arrival of the city's first German ack-ack units. Already, in short, the R.A.F. had made Italy a minor second, front...
...Lessons. These men learned lessons which will help beat the Japs. They learned the difficulties of dive-bombing destroyers, which are as hard to catch in the open sea as a cockroach on a kitchen floor. They learned the most advantageous level to begin dives into ack-ack. They learned the best way to deal with Zeros. Some squadrons boast of the number of lives they have given for their country. But Kirn's men are proud of how much they did with so little loss. The lessons learned by Kirn's men will be of service...