Word: amphibianism
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Bataan to Vittoria. I.N.S.'s ace, steady Clark Lee, who covered Bataan and the Solomons for A.P., went in with an amphibian task force. When the beachhead was made, he joined seven U.S. soldiers in two jeeps and entered Vittoria. They were somewhat premature. Two German armored cars surprised the Americans in a garage. Lee led his party out the back way. The armored cars caught up with them and killed a sergeant, but Lee and the rest finally made the U.S. lines...
Beneficiaries of the new handbook will include at present the Navy Supply Corps School, Electronics School, Army Air Forces Statistical School, Naval Training School, Chaplain School, Soil Mechanics course, Engineer Amphibian Command, and Surgery and Tropical Medicine courses...
...paper will be distributed Friday mornings at no cost to the service men, and will include news of the several schools' activities and notices. Contributions are expected from members of the Army Air Force, Marines, WAVES, Army Chaplains, Navy Supply and Communications officers, Army Amphibian Engineers, and from the other service schools...
...Chief of Staff Osami Nagano. He must orient his plans, whatever they may be, to the situation in which Japan now finds herself. It is an excellent defensive position. To the east there is a stretch of Pacific across which the U.S. would hesitate to send an all-out amphibian invasion, knowing what carrier and land-based forces were able to do to such an invasion when the Japs tried to take Midway. To the north there is a temporary security which rests on the virtual certainty that Russia would not be willing to let the U.S. move on Japan...
...electronics school, Navy communication and indoctrination unit, Army Chaplains School, 25 Army engineers studying soil characteristics as it affects airport construction, "rough-and-ready" navigation being taught the Army's Amphibian Engineers, the Air Force Statistical School, and two groups 'earning about surgical and tropical medicine at the Medical School bring Harvard's armed population to a figure approximating...