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...expedient for rescuing Germany from defeat, V-1 was too little and too late. But as a weapon of war, crude but improvable, it made its mark. The Allied war planners could fabricate enormous quantities of flying bombs for the final knockout of Japan, launch them against the heart of the Empire from carriers...
...constructed a crude altar. We covered it with a slightly soiled sheet and arranged things as best we could with what we had to work with. Soda crackers and diluted rum served as the more essential elements. The service was crude . . . but our men appreciated it more than they would have in one of our larger cathedrals, because they had an active part in bringing it about. I probably stepped way out of line by taking it upon myself to conduct the holy sacrament, but I am sure that some of the men who participated, especially those...
...made a crude calendar, carefully accounting for the days, calculating and recording the changes of the moon. "It was pretty important for me to know when the moon would be full and the nights would be dark," Tweed said reflectively, recalling how he had lived the animal life of the hunted. Not until the Jap Navy garrison declared Tweed dead (in order not to lose face with a Jap Army garrison that followed it), did the search for him cease...
From the East. Myitkyina was the easternmost end of the road to China. Already from Yunnan province another road was being freed to complete the route. Chinese forces who held that stretch had crossed the Salween River and last week were fighting for the road town of Tengyueh. With crude ladders they scaled the ancient walls built in Marco Polo's day, turned modern flamethrowers on the Japanese defenders. At week's end they had occupied the inner defenses. Between Tengyueh and Myitkyina there were no Japs...
Rubbermen do not believe that synthetic will entirely replace natural rubber-the postwar market will be big enough for both. At least two or three years, probably much longer, may be needed to get Malayan and East Indian plantations back into normal production. Then, even if crude is cheaper than synthetic-say as low as 10½ a pound as against the present Buna S minimum of 14?-competition will still be a minor point because of the potentially enormous demand...