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...Owing to the action of Mr. de Valera, so much at variance with the temper and instinct of thousands of southern Irishmen, who hastened to the battlefront to prove their ancient valor, the approaches which the southern Irish ports and airfields could so easily have guarded were closed by the hostile aircraft and U-boats. This was indeed a deadly moment in our life, and if it had not been for the loyalty and friendship of northern Ireland, we should have been forced to come to close quarters with Mr. de Valera or perish forever from the earth. However, with...
...week before the Big Push, U.S. casualties reached an alltime high-19,998 for seven days. Casualties since Pearl Harbor now totaled 859,587, more than twice the number of World War I. And the battlefront pictures showed the cemeteries growing ever larger...
...decks," "reported aboard" and saw visitors "over the side." They had absorbed Navy tradition, had had a quick but thorough briefing on naval operations, naval weapons, history and current affairs. They were also imbued with the idea that if a WAVE quit, it was the same as a battlefront casualty...
Using the old Southern spirituals as his tools, sturdy, mild-mannered Glenn T. Settle, now 48, has made a career out of his mother's advice. This week, his famed all-Negro choir of mixed voices, the "Wings Over Jordan" chorus, is headed for a 26-week battlefront tour-the first religious musical group to be given a U.S.O. booking...
After eight months of V1, military scientists were more impressed than ever with robomb potentialities. "The importance of the V-weapons," wrote Hanson W. Baldwin, military columnist of the New York Times, summing up battlefront reports, "increases...