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...Eighth Air Force in England is calling for an anachronism. Its bomber crews want body armor. Reason: it has been proved by battle test that mail shirts and steel helmets save air crews' lives...
...Bluff, outspoken Mead L. Bricker, 58, general manager of Willow Run, has an armor-plated exterior, a soft, sentimental interior. He came to Ford in 1917, held various production jobs in the Rouge and Highland Park plants, was sent into Willow Run a year ago when the plant was hamstrung by production kinks. Bricker now has the plant on schedule...
...best Jap plane we've run into is the improved Zero, which we call the Hap. It has some armor protection for the pilot and a little more power than the Zero without sacrificing much maneuverability. But it blows up like a Zero when...
Correspondents who saw the British 6th Armored Division break through at Fondouk two weeks later felt that the U.S. armor might have shown more daring at El Guettar. True, the hills to the south of the pass had not been cleared, but a determined thrust might have forced the pass and flanked the enemy in those hills. True, there were minefields in the pass, but so there were at Fondouk, and there the British sacrificed some 40 tanks to plough through. But whatever shortcomings were revealed at El Guettar, they taught some valuable lessons. If U.S. troops learn best...
...same as it had been in the south: to clear the mountains guarding a pass, force the pass and spread out on the plain to Kairouan. Those who watched a brigade of Guards take the dominant hill north of Fondouk in half an hour, who later saw the British armor plunge through a 450-yard-deep minefield covered by twelve anti-tank guns and speed for Kairouan, felt that there was something essentially wrong with the 34th, which had been unable to take the hills on the south side of the pass. The four U.S. correspondents who saw that battle...