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...will be here only two years. Thus it is advisable to take the important courses and plan to get as much education as possible in four terms. The University is offering special war courses but unless you have special aptitude for electronics or some such specialized subject, don't dive headlong into it. Elementary Math and Physics will be helpful in the Army or Navy, but beyond that they train their...
...slow and agonizing and struck home the harder because Lieut. General Jonathan M. Wainwright's communiques were terse and professional. For 15 days the Jap struck at Bataan with everything he had. Dive-bombers blew great craters in forward positions. Artillery roared endlessly day & night; the nervous chatter of Jap machine guns rattled until it rasped men's nerves like a file. The Jap even struck again at the hospital, scattered the wounded like straws...
...battle had begun somewhere off upper Norway, beyond where the North Atlantic meets the Arctic Circle. As the convoy sailed around North Cape and along the coasts of the remote, mineral-rich territory called Lapland, dive-bombers and submarines kept up the attack. Berlin, reporting the last one near the entrance to Murmansk harbor, claimed a total bag of eight ships, including a 10,000-tonner loaded with tanks and ammunition. The British said that the entire convoy entered Murmansk, admitted some damage and deaths, claimed the probable destruction of three U-boats with depth charges...
...north whipped nine Jap bombers at high altitude. Anti-aircraft slammed against the chattering of machine guns, and the convoy zigzagged in a crazy pattern. The Jap took dead aim and let go. His first salvo missed. The second took the Langley fairly. Dive-bombers bored in, slammed the old tender again & again...
...noise rose early on April Fools' Eve, with the full moon. It grew from a rattle to a roar, insistent, oncoming. It was mortar fire, machine-gun fire, rifle fire, dive-bombing, naval bombardment, all the powder in the powder...