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...speaking Cajuns with their families, alligator hunters, Chinese shrimp fishermen, muskrat trappers, oil drillers, smugglers. Almost every community bore the scars of some earlier storm. Children around Port Lavaca, Tex. had played in the ruins of Indianola (once considered a rival of New Orleans), which was blown off the map in 1886. In 1893, while dwellers on the shore of Barataria Bay south of New Orleans were dancing to celebrate the end of a storm, mountainous waves suddenly swept over, wiped out town and townspeople in 15 minutes. At Galveston, where in 1900 a hurricane and tidal wave killed...
...British appointed a transport expert, Brigadier General Sir Godfrey Rhodes, as director of transportation through Iran. Within a few days complete plans had been drawn up. It was decided to improve two Persian Gulf ports, Iran's Bandar Shahpur and Iraq's Basra (see map). Road and rail links with Teheran and Tabriz would be improved or completed as soon as possible. Auxiliary lines, from India via Baluchistan or Afghanistan, and from the Mediterranean via Syria or Palestine, may also be developed. But all this would take a long time...
...crushing superiority in planes, artillery and mechanized equipment; they might have up to 100,000 men. The valley of the Hsiang River gave them a natural avenue of approach to his capital. A few crosswise streams and low hills were his only terrain advantages. General Hsueh studied the map, pondered. He had let the Japanese get within 15 miles of Changsha in 1939, then cut them to bits. But he had fought with crack Central Government divisions then. Now some of those troops had been transferred to Yunnan, 800 miles away, to stand guard against the Japanese in French Indo...
...scene of operations all were fitted out with officers' uniforms. Each was supplied with a map of the 30,000-square-mile maneuver area-a map about the size of a bedspread (most of them found common road maps much handier). They were also supplied with free transportation-jeeps, command cars or ordinary taxis (hired by the Army at $10 a day). Then they were turned loose to try and find out what war was like...
...correspondent who was a poor map reader was as helpless as an orphan unable to dress himself. At Lake Charles (headquarters of Lieut. General Walter Krueger's Third Army) and at Winnfield (headquarters of Lieut. General Ben Lear's Second Army) the correspondents assigned to each Army were told that the war would begin about midnight. Eventually they received word that action had started 100 to 200 miles away. Then they saw the last of headquarter comforts and were off into the dawn...