Word: commando
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...rolling off California production lines at a record clip. Next will come giant 25-ton Douglas DC-45, able to tote a ten-ton payload non-stop for 2,200 miles. For the rest of the fleet the Army will lend the airlines huge newfangled Curtiss Commando transports and big-bellied Consolidated 6-24 bombers converted into cargo planes...
...latest turn in British tactics is shown in an exciting sequence of Commandos training. One Commando attack is shown in naming detail: the destruction of fuel dumps on Norway's Lofoten Islands. This is the most significant fact about New Soldiers. For this picture, the latest in the Canadian Government Film Unit's World in Action series, talks solely in terms of attack. The first of the series (Churchill's Island), made over a year ago, spoke only of defense...
...make this recording, NBC men brought four Commandomen to their Manhattan studios and recorded ad lib interviews on their experiences. Then NBC arranged for a speech by Commando Commander Lord Louis Mountbatten. The records were skillfully woven into a composite half-hour interview...
...night a raid force of the King's African Rifles, marines and commando units slipped out of Madagascar's Diego Suarez, by next nightfall were within range of Vichy's island of Mayotte in the channel. After dark they landed, took Mayotte without opposition or casualties, found radio station and all else intact...
...when the American Revolution faced defeat and disintegration. The book begins with America's Dunkirk, the retreat across Manhattan's East River that saved the Continental Army after the Battle of Long Island. It ends with Washington's recrossing of the Delaware-a prototype of the Commando raids...