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...rubber and metal are particularly needed by industry. Out of one piano can be made three or four machine guns. Andirons, unusable inner tubes, old shoes, and galoshes are of extreme value. Students are also urged to give up their softsponge rubber cushions because of the large amount of firsthand rubber contained in them. Sponge rubber is considered A-1 materiel...
TIME Correspondent Jack Belden last week cabled this firsthand account of a U.S. Army air force raid on a big Japanese base below Hankow on the Yangtze River...
...Lush. No place can be taken as typical in England-it is all too new -but here is a firsthand picture of a Bomber Command unit. Quarters are in a hundreds -of -years -old. many-roomed, thick, crenelated-walled home and on the large, lush grounds of a big estate occupied since 1939 by the R.A.F. Privates are encamped in their own U.S. wooden-floored tents for the summer, officers in the mansion's outsize, fireplaced, tinted-plaster bedrooms complete with stone washbasins and large, white crockery commodes. Officers who tended to laugh at the British Army...
Over a long breakfast of scrambled eggs, toast and coffee, President Roosevelt got a firsthand account of warfare in the Pacific from his young, trusted friend, Congressman Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas. Tall Lyndon Johnson, a Navy lieutenant commander, had sought active duty one hour after voting for war against Japan. He had ranged as far as Perth, Melbourne, Sidney, Darwin and Port Moresby. Now he returned to Washington 28 Ib. lighter (from a pneumonia attack) but much wiser in the ways...
...competition proved that the capable artist, working in the heat of firsthand observation, could turn out wartime pictures that were trenchant records of life behind the guns. As one officer said: "In this war, for the first time, army and public emotions are at the same level. The army artists are putting the emotions on canvases that are good and understandable...