Word: combats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Array. Russia, the only other owner of a first-class military potential, has taken a different course. Russia still has 4½ million men under arms and 15,500 combat airplanes in service, is building a submarine Navy. By best military estimate, Russia has 93 divisions, 7,200 combat airplanes on its European frontier; 82 divisions and 6,000 planes poised toward the Middle East. In Korea and facing Japan she has 13 divisions and 700 aircraft. In Siberia are 20 more divisions and several hundred aircraft in reserve. Within 30 days Russia could build to 10½ million trained...
They consider the irreducible minimum to be a ready, full-strength aerial spearhead of 70 groups (some 8,000 planes) able to carry the war to the enemy's homeland, blast his cities and industry, cut up his slow-moving land armies. Behind the spearhead: eleven fully equipped combat divisions (some 132,000 men) freed from routine chores and immediately available to seize advance bases and begin the clinching land assault. The total: an Army and Air Force of 1,070,000 men, supported in flank actions by the 500,000-man Navy and Marine Corps...
With mixed feelings, University of California's President Robert G. Sproul called them "D.A.R.s" (Damned Average Raisers). Said Georgetown University Student John Mislan, 25, ex-ski trooper and veteran of four months' combat in Italy: "The majority of veterans are pushing their education too fast. They are running but they don't know what they are running...
...Afraid? Were the graduate veterans worried about the problems of the Atomic Age? Ed Prizer, who flew 103 combat missions as a Spitfire pilot in the R.C.A.F., returned to graduate from the University of Southern California, wrote a half-page valedictory for U.S.C.'s Alumni Review: "We Are Unafraid." Excerpts: "This year there are some seniors who are afraid to graduate ... to face the Atomic Age. . . . Those of us who do not fear graduation are unafraid because we know we hold the key to the future. ... We value faith...
...books had reached the subscribers, and there were already 1,000 requests for more. Colonel Greening's careful watercolors were not first-rate art, but for the graduating class of Stalag Luft I they made a historic yearbook. And to men who had survived air combat, his paintings rang true...