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...feels. . . . You taxi out for takeoff. In a few minutes you are in the air and taking your position in the formation. There is not much conversation on the way. . . . You know the time of arrival at the target and you watch the clock on the dashboard crawl by. Then . . . you see your destination. The speed is picked up and there is a last-minute check on the instruments. Conversation picks up briefly-"Is this the bus to Baltimore?"-"Clear the bombways"-"Give 'em hell, doc" -"Here we go." All this is over interphone; . . . there is no talk between...
Beginning with Manchuria, the picture swiftly telescopes the transformation of China's millions into an army. While cities are levelled and as many as a thousand Chinese are killed in a single hour, millions crawl westward along the roads. In the interior mountains they build underground factories, train troops, organize men, women & children to defend their nation. When at length Japan attacks the U.S., U.S. officers go to China to learn from experts how to fight Japs. In China they find "the very pattern of a modern fighting state...
...will get all that Lockheed can make. Built for the luxury trade, the Constellations will keep some of their comfort features, notably the supercharging system which keeps pressure in the cabin at the equivalent of 8,000 ft. while they fly at their best altitude-20,000 ft.-or crawl up as far as 35,000 to get over storms...
...grey, dripping skies. There were disquieting reports that the Axis, pouring in airborne reinforcements from Italy, had gained numerical superiority along the fighting front. On the heights overlooking Mateur and Madjez-el Bab, Anderson's lightly armed advanced troops grimly hung on and waited for heavier troops to crawl...
Boys are taught how to creep and crawl, break arms, kill with bayonets and knives, gouge eyes, knee the enemy in the groin. They are warned at the start to expect bloody noses and black eyes - especially when teams tear into each other with no holds barred. They take their lessons in dirty fighting seriously...