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Aikman followed him as he turned out over the sea', trying to get as near England as possible with his failing engine. Aikman could see him quite clearly in the cockpit. He opened his sliding hood and took off his helmet. It appeared to Aikman that he was also releasing his parachute harness. Aikman called through his radio that he was going to climb so that he would be able to fix Finucane's position when he crashed. Paddy replied: "Get as high as possible...
...Army's new Tank Destroyer Command. The General went from a course in dairy husbandry at Texas A. & M. into border fighting and World War I, emerged with a D.S.C., Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre with Gold Star (twice). No martinet, he picked the site of Camp Hood not only for its mud and its sweaty climate, but because he liked Cow House Creek which runs through it, providing seven fine swimming holes where parboiled tankers can cool...
...long had men trained in anti-tank tactics, armed with stationary artillery to defend infantry positions, supplemented with a bag of tank-hampering tricks including "asparagus beds" (barricades) and traps borrowed from the engineers, "Molotov cocktails" learned from the Spanish, and "boom biscuits" (tank mines). At Camp Hood men learn to use all these, but most important, they are learning how to handle tank destroyers. The phrase "antitank" is disappearing in favor of "tank destroyer...
...Rommel has done even while the British have air superiority, General Bruce thinks there should be at least two, possibly four, tank-destroyer battalions with each combat division. He is quietly going about selling the idea to the Army. By autumn there will be 35,000 men at Camp Hood, and there will soon be half as many men in tank-destroyer outfits as in tanks...
...Symphonies." Other summer openings followed in quick succession: Manhattan's Stadium concerts, an open-air series by the Philharmonic-Symphony; the Cleveland Orchestra's roofed-over summer series, in the huge, airy Public Auditorium; Philadelphia's warm-weather nights of symphonic music in willow-fringed Robin Hood Dell. Others were still several weeks ahead: the Chicago Symphony's six-week season in rustic Ravinia on Chicago's North Shore; Chicago's free Grant Park concerts (for which the Chicago Federation of Musicians is putting up $48,000); Detroit's Belle Isle nights...