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...Joseph Stalin weaves Russia's policy. * A typical fact about 1943 Europe was A.P.man Daniel De Luce's discovery in Yugoslavia that the only army visible on the Adriatic coast was an army of Partisan guerrillas. The Soviet hammer and sickle is a favorite emblem of that army...
Artists of the Quartermaster Corps and Special Service Division, Army Service Forces, collaborated in designing a series of insignia which would serve as the official emblem of the ASTP...
Still more exclusive back-patting travel group is the Kee Club, named after the mythical Kee bird, which flies around the North Pole plaintively crying: "Kee-KeeKee-rist, but it's cold!" Membership emblem : a walrus tooth on a key chain. To qualify for membership (by invitation only), initiates must have accomplished any two of four feats: completed a mission above the Arctic Circle; ridden the White Pass & Yukon Railway from Whitehorse to Skagway; flown across the mountains from Whitehorse to Norman Wells on the Mackenzie; gone down the Yukon from Fort Yukon to the mouth...
When U.S. airmen began to operate on a large scale in Europe and Africa, the star was sometimes mistaken for Ger many's black cross edged with white. Early in July the U.S. emblem was redesigned to incorporate two white rectangles, one on either side of the star, with a narrow red border enclosing the whole device (TIME, July 19). Even at great distances this arrangement gave the appearance of a long white band, easily distinguishable from the German emblem. Everyone relaxed and got on with...
Last week the War Department sadly admitted that the emblem was still not right: the red border was picking up reflections of light and looking Japlike again. Out went orders for the third rejiggering, and on airfields and carriers all around the world, mechanics reached for the paint pots, started changing the border to blue...