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...weathered old sea eagle had been retired eight years. He told the Admiralty: "I want to die on a battlefield-not in bed." Said the Admiralty: "Too old." Eventually he was given an assignment deemed suitable for a superannuated sailor-as liaison officer to the Mediterranean commander Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham. Sir Walter, still alarmed by the risk of dying in bed, got Cunningham to assign him to the Commandos, to train Commando-men in handling small boats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: Utter Contempt | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

...illiterates will be registered. Home town authorities will assign each literate to his pupil. The Government will distribute ten million primers. A check-up will be made one year later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chain Literacy | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

National Selective Service officials, convinced that Corstorphine is a genuine convert and "not just trying to get out of the Navy," decided to assign him to some sort of noncombat work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE SERVICES: Christadelphian | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

They Must Get Back. Unlike other flyers, reconnaissance pilots usually fly unarmed-and they must return from their missions. They generally take their photographs at very high altitudes (over 30,000 ft.). Both the U.S. and Royal Air Forces now assign their best planes for reconnaissance. The U.S. favorite is a stripped-down P-38, with five cameras in the nose instead of guns. The Flying Fortress, with eleven cameras, is also used, on less hazardous missions. The British use Mosquitoes and Spitfires. Military needs have fathered many innovations, such as flash bombs for night photography, a new camera with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eyes in the Skies | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...departing members of 10-13, having mind and body, do hereby take the opportunity to pass on, and, in some cases to re-assign certain properties extant upon this campus...

Author: By Ens. GUY Osborne, | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 1/25/1944 | See Source »

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