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Ship life was dull. The men of the and Marine Division fairly wilted in their crowded, hot quarters. They spent an hour each day cleaning rifles, sharpening bayonets, then another hour studying aerial photographs and contour maps of Betio, the little bird-shaped island that was the main fortification of Tarawa atoll. There was nothing else to do except see movies, read dog-eared magazines, play cards and sleep, which Marines can do at any time in any position on almost any given surface...
Colonel Were, who began his work last year, has been using ten feet to a mile so that the over-all length is about eight yards with a width of two yards. The contour interval is 20 feet, allowing accurate elevations on the model. Colonel Ware has used a ply-wood base which he has covered with special cloth. Lightly sprinkled over the cloth is sand and artificial grass which makes a puff or hole when an shell lands...
...offensive. . . . Now, why not lay a pipeline from some East Indian port overland to Chungking or some suitable base, and pipe the fuel in ? ... A five-or six-inch pipe could carry a lot of fuel. The line would not have to be buried, just follow the contour of the ground, up valleys, along ridges, etc. The pipe should be available from the iron foundries of India...
Designed to serve as a complete introductory guide to the study of map and serial photograph reading, the course will progress from work on scales, projections and contour lines to field sketching and stereoptical study. Erwin Raisz, instructor in Geographical Exploration, will give the course, for which applications should be made at the Institute on 2 Divinity Avenue...
...first two lectures cover scales, projection, conventional symbols, contour lines, profiles, gradients, and visibility. The military grid system and the determination of distances and azimuths are explained in the third, followed by problems of orientation, the compass and its use, and field methods in following map routes...