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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many guerrillas are Red Army soldiers who have filtered singly or in groups through the German lines. Often they maintain communications with their own commanders by air. Planes bring them supplies. At night their wounded are taken back to the Russian lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Fenimore Cooper Stories. | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...Second hour (in order to maintain peak production): Embraceable You, I've Got A Gal in Kalamazoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Productive Melody | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

Swedish Snaps. The polar bears in Stockholm's Scansen have not had their full rations of raw meat for three years. Neither have the Swedes had their sill & snaps (herring & aquavit) as often as before. They have managed to maintain their national Thursday evening meal of pea soup and pancakes-and they have managed to stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Hunger | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...virtues of heavy hitting power, excellent armor, high diving speed, and the leakproof tanks common to all U.S. combat aircraft. Against the Zero it has proved, on the average, to be superior. But most P-40 pilots frankly say that they would like more altitude, if they could still maintain their advantages of superior firepower and protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: A Report to the People | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...strategists counted on having to maintain a continuous offensive, once the invasion began? Or had unforeseen events upset careful plans for just such an offensive? It might have been expected that the Japs at their nearby bases would give the U.S. forces no rest, once the Solomons were invaded. Had the Navy expected to draw the Japs into another Midway, instead of the dispersal and infiltration by sea which the Japanese actually practiced? Said Admiral Ernest J. King, in explaining the Solomons invasion last August: "Considerable losses, such as are inherent in any offensive operation, must be expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Why Guadalcanal? | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

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