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Quality Party. Like Commando troops, Rangers learn to skin up high trees, descend 200-ft. precipices on ropes, study the trade of the knife man and the strangler. To the newsmen visitors the training seemed to demand thugs and gangsters; but the British, who have tried that type, know better. "They never pan out-mostly yellow," said a Commando instructor...
Instead the Rangers are picked for intelligence and endurance. Like Commando recruits, about 50% of them fail the course and are sent back to their old units. The survivors fit no common pattern. Commander of the Rangers now in training is slight, friendly Major Randolph Milholland, 36, onetime cost accountant from Cumberland, Md. One of his captains, Lloyd Marr, 31, of Lamesa, Tex., trained in civilian life by working up statistics for the U.S. Treasury Department. In commando training, bulk and muscle are assets. But the training-wise instructors know they are not indispensable. A stout heart counts most...
...these words British Commando Officer Lieut. Colonel Robert Henriques describes the opening of the Commando raid which is the core of his unusual novel. As in his earlier No Arms, No Armour (TIME Jan. 15, 1940), Colonel Henriques' interest goes far beyond the surface mechanics of British army life...
Testing and Insurance. Most of the big ones were Eddie Allen's babies-Douglas' DCs, Boeing's Stratoliner and Clipper, Consolidated's four-motored Coronado, Curtiss-Wright's Commando, Lockheed's new Constellation (which he shook down last month). Greatest single tribute to his skill was that a big insurance company refused to cover such test flights unless Eddie Allen was up front...
...interest of greater realism, Producer Lester Cowan and Director John Farrow (who directed Wake Island) filmed the entire picture on the rugged crags of Vancouver Island. For the Commando sequences they had as actors actual Commandos-in-training of the Canadian Army, and among their technical advisers was Major General A. E. Potts, who organized the first actual Commando raid in Norway. But as a picture of war, Director Farrow's Commando lacks the force of his Wake Island...