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...from captain since he joined the Air Forces in 1940, the President's second oldest son (32) is a veteran of photographic flying in the Arctic, Britain and Iceland. In Africa he has one of the Air Forces' most dangerous jobs, including what pilots and photographers call "dicing"-flying as low as 100 feet over enemy targets for close-up pictures. Roosevelt has "diced" Tunisia, Sicily and Sardinia, and last week he was still trying to pile up more combat-flying time than any other man in his unit. One reason for his zeal: he knows that many...
...Troops in Iceland looked on sorrowfully when one soldier picked up 83 letters of the 150 addressed to his outfit...
Submarines and convettes guarded the first legs of the convey's to Iceland, through the Denmark Straits where the Bismarck went down, and out from Iceland toward northern England. There the convey split into two parts, for England and Russia, with most of the escorting vessels accompanying the England-bound section...
...resounded smartly to shrapnel all day long. When they first got there, they were inspected for injuries by Russian doctors, who administered vodka to the low in spirit. Haskell described the entire crew as low in spirit. They had been subjected to the horrors of one percent beverage in Iceland...
...intent of the Senate amendment is to save the lives of men under 20, but it will not necessarily work that way: 1) Army death rate in the U.S. is 2.15 per thousand, but in Bermuda it is only half that, in Iceland only 1.62; 2) an 18-year-old could not go to Puerto Rico where the principal hazard is sunburn, but with only one day in the Army he could go into action against Japs in Alaska...