Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ The Air Corps, alone of fighting branches, is being brought to fighting strength with 1,250 modern planes on hand, 1,050 on order, 2,320 in sight by the end of fiscal 1940.* Emphasis in new construction was recently shifted from heavy bombers to light bombers and attack...
Self-criticism is a near-fetish in the new army. ". . . We are training under tactical regulations and with materiél that are almost wholly obsolete,'' Major General Lynch wrote in the current Infantry Journal. "There should be no hesitancy in moving at once to a radical revision...
*Official figures. As in all armies the U. S. Air Corps minimizes its strength, undoubtedly has and will have several hundred more planes available.
U. S. newsmen in Hankow, accustomed to second-hand stories of conditions in Japanese-occupied areas of China, listened last week to a first-person account by tall, bristly-haired, up-&-coming 42-year-old Captain Evans Fordyce Carlson of the U. S. Marine Corps. Having served five years as...
Many physicians in Munich received orders to leave their private practice and report for "50 days' service" with the army medical corps, each doctor to bring with him food for two days and two changes of linen. The army bought foodstuffs at such a rate that private German grocers...