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Flying over enemy territory, a reconnaissance observer spies, for example, an enemy force cunningly deployed to command a road below. The observer sketches the enemy position on a map, puts the sheet on a facsimile transmitter beside him. A few minutes later, at a U.S. base hundreds of miles away, the commanding officer pulls a sheet off a receiving machine, has a duplicate of the observer's drawing...
Once again the red cannon rolled. They boomed for countless men grey from the foe. In Berlin Nazi spokesmen babbled of "evading actions" and "elastic defense." But the grim face of the war map uttered the word they would not: retreat. All along the 700-mile fluid front, from the forests of Smolensk to the Sea of Azov, the Wehrmacht was falling back in what might yet be its worst defeat. Nazi bastions which a month ago were safely in the rear were now in peril. Taganrog, Yelnya, Sumy and Konotop had fallen. Smolensk, Poltava, Mariupol and Stalino (which Berlin...
...matters of trade and commerce, he wants no such government turning the borders of the U.S. into mere lines on a map, as the borders of the separate states have become...
Army Covers Map...
...Army units are all over the map. The Army Specialized Training men in Winthrop and Leverett have been most active in College life. These students of Military Psychology and Foreign Areas and the Med Students in Boston will embrace Harvard's new school when it arrives in October. Called the AST reserve, this new bunch will be 17-year-olds, sent to college, housed and fed free, but with no pay until they get inducted. They will wear civilian clothes to classes, get some discipline, and take engineering courses...