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...correspondents. Below them, spread over a sea of yellow muck, was an amazing spectacle. An M-4 (General Sherman) tank lumbered noisily through the mud, nosed down into a shell hole, up the other side, paused before the generals' hill, then roared away. At its heels came a lighter tank, a General Stuart, followed rank on rank by U.S. gun carriers, tanks, armored cars, combination gun & man carriers in seemingly endless variety, the newest and most formidable mechanized weapons of a nation at war. As they passed, and then returned to perform over the obstacle-strewn test courses...
...always been great: it is now larger than ever. As long as is humanly possible the system will try to maintain its standards of giving the student the best to be had for the price paid, but patience, sacrifice, and above all, understanding, will help to make the burden lighter...
...nervously lighter side to the grim picture came yesterday from tales of escapes from the Grove. Many students, came close to being there, only to to miss at the last moment. Most amazing was the man who flipped a coin for the Grove or another spot. The coin said "Cocoaunt" but his date insisted on two out of three, and they missed fate. A Freshman, told he was too young to be served liquer, left petulantly five minutes before the fiame burst...
...meantime splashes from the Boise's lighter guns were observed on either side of a smaller ship. Shortly this ship could no longer be seen, although the shell splashes were still visible. . . . One minute later the Boise had her main batteries trained on a destroyer. This ship exploded and disappeared after one minute of the Boise's murderous fire...
...There's a Man." At the R.A.F. advance headquarters, which had previously been Luftwaffe headquarters, U.S. Army Air Forces General "Lighter-than-Air" Strickland took us over to the tiny blue-doored trailer in which Air Vice Marshal Coningham was directing all R.A.F. operations in the Western Desert. Although Rommel's retreat was orderly, neither Coningham nor General Montgomery had anticipated such a quick Axis collapse in Egypt. At the very least they expected the Germans to make a stand on the frontier. Coningham believed that the Axis would probably be able to make a stand...