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...Russian forces "along the arc of the Kursk salient" constitute a goodly portion of the Red Army's best troops and armor. Kursk itself is a valuable railway and military center. But, as the Russians indicated, Nazi Field Marshal Günther von Kluge may well be more interested in the "encirclement and annihilation" of those forces than in geographical gains...
...Large forces of German armor and aircraft, hitherto sure signs that the Wehrmacht means business, had gone into action. The Russians said they destroyed or damaged 586 German tanks and 203 German planes the first...
...English sword maker agreed to make the mail. In World War I he had developed a suit of light strips of flexible steel, held together and covered by canvas. Before designing the airman's armor, movements of a bomber crew at 20,000 feet were studied. The suit was designed for complete freedom of action, can be shed fast for a quick bailout...
...three months crews of ten Fortresses (100 men) wore the armor, plus regulation steel helmets, on regular missions over Europe. Grow's figures showed that at least nine owed their lives to it; many more were saved from serious wounds. One man survived a 20-mm. shel' which exploded two feet from his head...
Such results gave bomber crews grounds for hope that body armor might soon be standard. They also made Flight Surgeon Grow an airman's hero. Said he: ". . . If was better to do something about it now instead of reading papers about it to medical societies after...