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...hint was given of the total count of cannon, tanks and trucks. One guess at the loot taken from Arnim's armies: a thousand fieldpieces, two or three hundred tanks, six or seven hundred planes. No one would guess at the haul of small equipment: machine guns, mortars, and such oddments of fighting apparel as helmets and side arms...
...previous writings, Hoover argues for a "conditional peace" first. During this period, the Axis nations would surrender their arms, demobilize armies, return loot and repatriate prisoners...
...fame reached the Argentine hinterland, where last week bands of gypsies, having elected Mihailovich honorary chieftain, were raiding cattle ranches and scrupulously setting aside their loot in an aid-to-Mihailovich fund. †"Partisans" was originally an American word for guerrilla bands in the Colonial wars between the British and French. Later it was applied to such groups as "The Green Mountain Boys" in the Revolution and to Cantrell's Guerrillas in the Civil War. Partisans were active in the Napoleonic wars and the Russian Revolution. The name now designates Communist-led and other leftist guerrillas in Europe...
German weapons on display were the loot of ordnance intelligence raids designed to snare more concrete information than usually is gleaned from prisoners. Captured guns, tanks and ammunition go back to Aberdeen Proving Ground, 35 miles northeast of Baltimore. Close examination not only reveals secrets of design and operation but often gives an insight to the enemy's general materiel situation. Example: a German 88-mm. gun at Aberdeen has a three-piece barrel, indicating shortages of certain materials. The U.S. 20 years ago stopped manufacturing similar weapons in this obsolete manner...
...stock companies and 1,400 corporations went under. But now the little man was being told that the rich occupied regions of Russia would yield enough loot to satisfy big & little...