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...Plane Section. By constant experiment and discussion (often by long and argumentative letters), Thach, Flatley and other young airmen finally agreed that the old-fashioned three-plane "V" section was outdated. Their substitute: a two-plane section which was nimbler, deadlier...
Savage as the fighting was and had been, it would soon out-savage all that had gone before. All along the 1,200-mile front, the certain threat of a new and deadlier battle, to begin with the drying of the ground, hung like the storm cloud of a hurricane's second and deadliest phase. Against its break, Russians slashed deep into Nazi positions. Nazis hung grimly to what they had been ordered to hold...
...chill deadlier than winter's struck the U.S. last week-the chill of repeated Russian defeat and retreat (see p. 23). As Hitler's pincers hooked their talons toward Moscow, the eyes of the U.S. turned inevitably to the White House. In answer to that mute demand, the President this week made a formal statement...
...marched, to the rouse and stir of quickstep-music, with their fresh-faced sons, their pretty, milk-fed daughters, high-kneeing drum majorettes in boots and shorts and shakos. In Army camps all over the country were other thousands of their draft-age sons, marched and maneuvered with a deadlier purpose...
...trade "friend," victorious Germany could make U. S. business and politics dance to its fiddling. As military foe, well fed and fortified in South America, it might play a deadlier tune. For it was of this war that Adolf Hitler's military mentor, old General von Ludendorff wrote...