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These courses, meeting for four hours every Saturday morning for fifteen weeks, are still open to teachers who wish to equip themselves to train students in these vital war studies, and although a preliminary meeting took place on January 9, registration will not close until this Saturday. No tuition will be charged. This is part of the war training program of the Common wealth of Massachusetts Department of Education, according to the Graduate School...
...pursuit became more difficult with every mile he moved west. Rommel was falling back on strength, Montgomery was moving away from it. There were fighter bases along the Tripolitanian coast, but Rommel plowed them up as he retreated and sowed the furrows with mines. Montgomery had to build and equip fields for fighter planes as he moved along. The weather was on the Axis side. No one knew how long it would be before the sun would come out of the foul sky and bake the battlefields. The rainy season lasts through February, sometimes into April. The climactic conflict...
...force along the Burmese coast. That would mean participation of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's armies on a footing of equality. China is anxious that the blow be struck only when sufficient planes, tanks, guns and other weapons (supplied by the U.S. and Britain) have been amassed to equip a concentration of soldiers (supplied chiefly by China and India...
...total of men in the armed services was 6,300,000; estimates for 1943 ran as high as nine million and for 1944 twelve million. But while the Army and Navy talked these huge figures all through 1942, they offered little evidence that the U.S. could in fact equip such a huge number of troops, or get them to the fighting fronts, without abandoning the policy of Lend-Lease to Britain and tp Russia...
...Anderson's First Army had been stuck in the mud. The cold and fog of a North African December hung over Tunisia and torrential rains made quagmires of the few roads that threaded the mountains. The Allies were still trying to move supplies up, still trying to equip advanced airdromes as fighter bases...