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...answer is that most thoughtful Americans want to see the small brass cannon of 1763 beside the giant bomber; the old horse-drawn cannon of the Revolution beside the motorized caisson; Washington's Delaware River dory beside the amphibian tank, and the flintlocks keeping company with the tommy guns. Blue-blooded Americans want to see these things preserved until necessity demands their sacrifice...
...picture drives home lesson No. 1 when tinny little Japanese amphibian tanks snort toward Singapore through the Malayan rice paddies which Allied generals had pronounced impassable. Field Marshal Rommel and his mighty Mark IVs teach lesson No. 2 by blazing away through the Libyan sandstorms. Then there are the Nazi battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, on their dash to home port, defiantly steaming through the English Channel before the British navy woke up. A brief, shocking sequence of Jap soldiers executing a pair of Chinese prisoners suggests the basic note of frightfulness as a factor in Axis tactics...
...July 9th, Harvard's latest addition to the Armed Services, John L. Steele, was called into service with a reserve officer's commission of 1st Lieutenant. He is now in training at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts and has been assigned as commanding officer to a unit of the Amphibian Command of the Engineer Corps...
Venezuela was agog last week over tales of marvelous amphibian boat-trucks that will open up the heretofore impenetrable reaches of the Orinoco and Amazon rivers...
...instructive: it selects details of the actual world and invites contemplation of them. Another kind of modern art gives pleasure by the sheer wit, fantasy and exuberance of its forms. Darrel Austin's paintings are of this sort, and the infectious charm of his queer, metallic-sheened amphibian fairyland has recently made him one of the most popular of contemporary U.S. artists...