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Frankly & Humbly. Just after midnight on Oct. 21 Captain Eddie, with seven Army officers and enlisted men, climbed into a Flying Fortress, took off on a special mission to the South Pacific. By next morning the compass had gone awry, the radio was out of kilter, they were lost. They crash-landed in the ocean, clambered into three rafts...
...R.A.F. planes harassed the enemy from the air. Brigadier General Claire Chennault's China-based air forces, in their most destructive raid of the war, blasted Haiphong in Indo-China, destroying shipping and munition dumps. Chennault's tactics were brilliant. Lightning-like, he struck around the compass. R.A.F. and U.S. pilots from India attacked Jap airdromes in Thailand and Burma. And in Yunnan, China's southernmost province, the troops of General Chiang Kai-shek waited in the jungles...
...personnel being moved will provide themselves with a sleeping bag, food and water for one week, clothing for one week, iron rations, three extra pairs of shoes, a compass, a scout knife, a pistol and roller skates or a scooter. No motorized equipment or collapsible boats will be permitted. . . . The War Department will issue walkie-talkies...
Every day thousands of parcels addressed "For the guerrillas" arrive in Moscow. Collective farmers of Siberia recently sent 4,000 packages. Each contained kitbag, leather boots, raincoat, tobacco, knives, compass. From the remote Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya came parcels of furs and dried fish...
Second Circle. The story begins with the flight of seven political prisoners from the Westhofen Concentration Camp. Twenty minutes after the break, the camp lieutenant spread out his map, "stuck the point of his compass into the red dot marked CAMP WESTHOFEN and drew three concentric circles." Somewhere between the red dot and the second circle the fugitives must be. From this circumference bloodhounds padded out into the foggy evening, the camp sirens screamed incessantly, police began the precise combing of every tree and tussock...