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...make them greater are going through flying and ground schools by the thousands. Glider pilots must be trained (a blind spot until recently with Army airmen), planes for fighting men must be moved, bases must be supplied in the six continents that are the Air Forces' battlefield...
...with a pool of about 20,000,000 tons of shipping, drew 60% of their supplies from France, Scandinavia and Spain. They threw their 100% largely at Germany on the Western Front. This time the Allies have only about 3,000,000 tons afloat. But the world is their battlefield. Vast stores of fuel oil, rubber and other riches once available are in the hands of the enemy. So are the resources and shipping of Scandinavia and, for practical purposes, of Spain. Moreover, the requirements in mechanized tools of war, model 1942, have shot up until supply is a fearsomely...
From their seats in Washington, offensive-minded officers of the Army detect on Europe's battlefield something more than the chance to help Russia. Ever so faintly they sniff the smell of victory, perhaps in 1942, more likely...
...rifle shot of the front. Military myopics of World War I had to grope their way back to base hospitals for glasses-which often did not catch up with them in time for the next battle. War II soldiers with shattered specs are to have prescriptions filled on the battlefield, can then rush back unblinking to the fray...
...very interesting account of "Moving Day for Mr. Nisei" (TIME, April 6), stated in part: "Thus, last week, the first compulsory migration in U.S. history set out for Manzanar, in California's desolate Owens Valley." I recalled a historical marker that I photographed near Pea Ridge Battlefield some years ago. Apparently Mr. Nisei was not the first...