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Land mines are generally divided into two classes: anti-tank and antipersonnel. The German IP2 is a typical anti-tank mine, disc-shaped, 10½ in. in diameter, 2¼ in. thick, weight 9 Ib. (5 Ib. TNT, 4 Ib. steel casing, detonator, etc.). Anti-tank mines are buried in the ground at strategic points through which approaching enemy tanks must pass. The number used may run into astronomical figures: a field 400 by 750 yards containing mines placed 1½ yards apart requires 5,000 mines. As many as 25,000 Russian mines have been...
...resulting explosion, even of a 19-lb. German Teller mine which contains 11 Ib. of TNT, is no more than enough to blow the tread off a tank, or sometimes to blast a hole in its thin-skinned belly. But stalled tanks are vulnerable targets...
Foodman Wickard hastily explained that there was no real shortage of these foods: supplies are the biggest ever. Big hitch is that the Army, Navy and Lend-Lease will gobble up about half 1943's production, leave only 33 Ib. for every U.S. citizen against a pre-war consumption of 46 Ib. The only choice was rationing, under a point system to be started when new ration books are ready in February...
Born. To Lieut. John Roosevelt, 26, U.S.N.R., and Anne Lindsay Clark Roosevelt, 25: their second child, first daughter, 7 Ib. 3 oz. ; the President's 13th grandchild; in San Diego...
Born. To Betty Cordon Saalfield, 19, Manhattan's "Deb No. 1" of 1941; and Lieut. Robert Sutton Saalfield Jr., 22: a son, 6 Ib.; at Fort...