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Twelve big R.A.F. transports landed at Nairobi, capital of Kenya Colony, one night last week, and set down the ist Battalion (800 men) of Britain's Lancashire Fusiliers. From adjoining Tanganyika and Uganda hurried a battalion and two companies of the King's African Rifles. H.M.S. Kenya, an 8,000-ton cruiser, put a detachment of marines ashore at Mombasa, Kenya's only modern harbor...
Last week Mrs. Pirecnik was in Germany to appeal the verdict. When she saw her son for the first time in ten years she broke down, sobbing: "Das ist mein Ivan." In the quiet chambers of Chief Justice Clark, Ivan was questioned...
Within sight of the searchlights that guard Panmunjom (where the truce talks were still deadlocked last week), men of the U.S. ist Marine Division were fighting bloodily for strategic high ground. A stream of Marine wounded and dead flowed back to the collecting stations, but the Marines claimed enemy casualties higher than their...
...five-year period. I cannot see why anyone in my position, as many reserves must be, should feel we owe any duty to our country when all around us are men who have never been required to give one day's service to their country. HENRY C. RUPEL ist Lieutenant, Air Force Reserve Lima, Ohio
...Last week the Air Force softened its get-tough policy towards the stay-downers, canceled the court-martial sentence (of two years hard labor and dishonorable discharge) of ist Lieut. Verne Goodwin( TIME, April 28), allowed him to resign "under conditions other than honorable...