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Said Franklin Roosevelt: "I think we should be prepared for the fact that Tunisia will cost us heavily in casualties. Yes, we must face that fact now, with the same calm courage as our men are facing it on the battlefield itself...
...Bases & Battlefields. Air forces, in the prelude to the final struggle, hammered at each other's bases and communication lines. The score in the air: 645 Axis planes downed; 260 Allied. Both sides continued to pour men and materiel into the constricted, crowded battlefield. Axis forces already numbered 250,000 men, according to Mr. Churchill. Allied forces on the front line were undisclosed, although Mr. Churchill said 500,000 had been landed in Northwest Africa...
Penicillin has the disadvantages of being hard to make, easy to spoil-it must be kept at refrigerator temperatures and would be very inconvenient for battlefield use. But, since it may fill many gaps in chemotherapy, the doctors following it feel like hounds on a hot scent...
...curriculum that broke with tradition. Its text was the first-hand experience of men who had met the Japs. And the curriculum was crammed with such subjects as how to finish a tough, bayoneting, backbreaking, eye-gouging fight; how to make the maximum use of natural cover in the battlefield; how to advance using cover in the face of gunfire. In Ben Lear's school the gunfire is real. The soldier who forgets his lesson can well be hurt or killed...
...fifth portable is established on an abandoned battlefield which has not yet been cleaned up because rain and mud makes it impossible to burn the place over or carry anything away. Jap corpses still inhabit the pillboxes (which the Australian tanks crushed), and sometimes the rain washes them into view. Humorous, bird-like Surgeon John Lambert of the fifth portable had a dream the other night: he found a Japanese map showing the whole Buna area under water, and he remembers saying, "Gee, the Japs make much better maps than...