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...filming proceeded last week in the Florida Keys on Warner Brothers' PT 109, Navy landing craft maneuvered around Munson Key and 20-mm. U.S.N. ammunition pah-pah-pahed in the air. But Warner Brothers was paying for all the ammo and all the fuel for the ships. Moreover, where they once might have dragged old PT boats out of mothballs, the Navy refused. No PTs are on active service, so Warner Brothers had to build...
...Buried Ammo. So far, the Minutemen have attracted mostly middle-class people with an average age of about 30. Some saw duty as Army Rangers or in the O.S.S.; a handful are on active military service now. Although some Minutemen belong to the way-right John Birch Society, the two organizations do not see eye to eye. Leader DePugh talked with Birch Founder Robert Welch, now recalls: "I did not find him impressive. He didn't think much of our program either. He doesn't even think the Russians have atomic weapons...
...Camp Liberty, Castro's main military headquarters. Darting through a curtain of antiaircraft fire, the B-26 swept over the camp toggling bombs, banked around for a rocket attack, then finished off by a strafing run with eight .50-cal. machine guns. As smoke from exploding ammo dumps and burning buildings spread over Castro's GHQ, radio reports crackled in of a similar B-26 raid on the military airport at Santiago, 460 miles away on the eastern end of the island...
...cans from the Army for 12? apiece. He found few takers until he discovered that the handles tilted to make an excellent shoe rest, so he peddled them as shoeshine stands, sold 196,000 to one customer for 20? apiece. "I'm known as the king of the ammo cans," says Tarashinsky...
...machine gun also fires 7.62-mm. ammo, replaces light and heavy -30-cal. machine guns of World War I vintage. The first true infantry assault gun of its kind, it can be fired from bipod, tripod, hip or shoulder, weighs 23 Ibs. (v. 30-40 Ibs.), is designed for quick replacement of barrel...