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...enemy is capable of altering his tactics quickly. The enemy understands machinery and is adroit at handling it. Speed characterizes his construction of airfields, motor roads and communication networks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Japs' Eye View | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

Coach Henry Lamar of the Crimson eleven has revamped his starting lineup for what may be the Crimson's toughest contest of the season, tomorrow's encounter, on Soldiers Field at 2:30 o'clock, with the Night Raiders from the Melville, R. I., Motor Torpedo Boat School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamar Revises Lineup For Raiders' Invasion | 11/10/1944 | See Source »

...players and with only a week of practice behind them since the start of the new term, the Crimson informal Varsity gridmen will face their strongest opponents of the 1944 season Saturday afternoon at Soldiers Field, when they will oppose the powerful eleven from the McIville, R. I., Motor Torpedo Boat School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Melville PT's Set For Saturday Tilt | 11/7/1944 | See Source »

Collisions between planes and birds are reported by U.S. airline pilots about twice a week. They can disable wing tips, dent the fuselage, foul the motor-but the chief danger is a windshield break. Last month a DC-3 almost crashed in Iowa when a duck came through the windshield in an explosion of glass and feathers and knocked out the pilot (the copilot saved the plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Birds v. Planes | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

Flanagan moved on shore aboard an amphibious tractor whose motor fouled the walkie-talkie, failed to cross an airfield on foot when mortar fire pinned the marines down. Later, carbine in hand, but walkie-talkie still functioning, he joined a group of marines flushing out a Jap pillbox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: As I Was Saying . . . | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

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