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...late autumn of 1941 a select group of British naval men, volunteers for a mission of danger and hardship, proceeded to a lonely country house and began a strange program of training...
...Reserves. In the summer of 1943 Germany had a real reserve. Some 25 unassigned Nazi divisions in south Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia were ready to be moved to any theater, for any task. But after Mussolini's fall they were dispatched to Italy and the Balkans. In the autumn a part of this force (probably five armored divisions) was rushed to the Ukraine. Of the remaining 20 divisions, about ten are fighting in Yugoslavia and southern Italy. The other ten are in northern Italy (or were until Rome was threatened last week...
...Last autumn a U.S. blood expert, Julian Herman Lewis, announced that he had made beef plasma safe by treating it with alkali. Last week's real news was that Dr. F. Ronald Edwards of the University of Liverpool has figured out a way to purify it with heat. If one of these methods can be used for mass production, the plasma supply will be almost limitless-a 1,000-Ib. steer is 7% blood...
...troopship going out, Michael Heming scribbled melodies, started to outline a score for a threnody on war. He did more work during the blazing African summer, by autumn had a pocketful of penciled notes. The day before the tide turned at El Alamein, Lieut. Heming was killed in action. His mother found the notes in the packet of his personal things sent home...
...need of such battalions in the autumn of 1941. On Dec. 28, blueprinted by Captain John Perry of the Civil Engineer Corps, U.S.N., they were launched. Their primary job: to build bases from which the Navy could fight a war with land-based support across 7,000 miles of Pacific ocean...