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Soldiers who want to get out of service in the first rush will have to file applications with their commanding officers. First in priority for getting out will be soldiers who can show hardship on their dependents, and second, soldiers over 28 years old. These need not even serve out...
Spokesmen for the War Department insisted that the discharge program was not planned with an eye on substandard morale. True as that might be, the undoubted fact was that it would have the effect of raising morale.
At the end of a three-week crescendo, the R.A.F. could point with pride this week to 140 raids, in which it claimed 226 German planes while losing195-a remarkable record considering the fact that during this period the R.A.F. was on the offensive over the Channel coast and Germany...
"Any man or State who fights against Naziism will have our aid. . . We have offered to the Government of Soviet Russia any technical or economic assistance which is in our power and which is likely to be of service to them. We shall bomb Germany by day as well as...
> One of the commonest medical causes of discharge from the British Army is peptic ulcers. Most of these are old ulcers. The high incidence of the disease in the Army, said half a dozen doctors in the Lancet and British Medical Journal, is merely a reflection of its prevalence among...