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...ready to receive a first-hand report on the battle of the Southwest Pacific, brought to Washington by General Douglas MacArthur's air chief, Lieut. General George C. Kenney...
Under Fire. Together Saffarrans and Lear worked out a curriculum that broke with tradition. Its text was the first-hand experience of men who had met the Japs. And the curriculum was crammed with such subjects as how to finish a tough, bayoneting, backbreaking, eye-gouging fight; how to make the maximum use of natural cover in the battlefield; how to advance using cover in the face of gunfire. In Ben Lear's school the gunfire is real. The soldier who forgets his lesson can well be hurt or killed...
...lecturer will be Phillip D. Bradley, Jr., instructor in Economics, who is at present on a leave of absence from the University for travel in South America, and will return with immediate first-hand information in time to give the course...
...will soon be on his way to Moscow to take Walter Graebner's place there. And from Russia came Graebner himself, homeward bound to report what he learned during his five months with the Russian armies. He stopped over in Egypt to bring home with him the first-hand feel of the fighting-got a very authentic six-days' sample bouncing across the desert with the British troops all the way past Tobruk-dodging Nazi bombs with them and sharing their bully beef and the dusty taste of victory. In contrast, he flew back to Cairo...
Demonstrating how "it can happen here," Donald R. MacAfee, who was in France from 1918 to 1941, gave a first-hand account of his experiences with sabotage, fifth column activity, and propaganda methods used in the defeat of the French nation, to the students of the University ARP course last night...