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...pamphlet, "Selection of Officer Candidates" describes not only the new methods but also the research done to evolve those new developments in picking out officer material. Besides experimenting with the Harvard ROTC and using their records for material, a commando group in England was also subjected to one of the physical tests...
...learns, one night backstage, that his brigade is moving. That is only a beginning for German Intelligence Headquarters, which promptly assigns two men to the job of discovering the English plan and destination. From scraps of information, each almost meaningless in itself, these spies deduce the imminence of a commando raid and its objective, a submarine base on the French coast. Result: the English are trapped when they land, and almost totally wiped...
Jaakko Mikkola will handle two track squads: a regular one, and a newly-instituted military track squad, which will highlight a sort of miniature commando course, with distance and sprint rush jumping, and obstacle races designed to toughen up the prospective soldier...
...ersatz build-it-your-self sets ran the gamut from Flying Fortresses and anti-tank guns to farms complete with milking pails, and three-ring circuses complete with rolling lion cages. There were cardboard guns that rat-a-tat-tatted just as if they were made of metal, Para-Commando dolls (with ammunition and food kits), miniature WAVES, WAACs and Marines, wooden roller skates...
...Commando men were landlubbers, and "the clatter of a cruiser in a gale roused desire for the lowing of cattle; and the sort of chanting that the winds make to a cabin . . . evoked an appetite for the comfortable village noises that steal by night over a long quiet distance." Before dawn they found themselves off the coast of Norway, and "high above us, on the shelf of an incidental mountain, the lovely, unbelievable, almost-forgotten picture of a lit window . . . hung in the morning darkness. For two years we had not seen such a window." But while the men stared...