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...north the once-famed Hermann Goring Division, which had been wiped out in Tunisia and since reconstituted. Another reinforcement was an infantry division which had been fighting Marshal Tito's Yugoslav Partisans at Istria. Prisoners from one regiment of reinforcements told Allied intelligence officers that half their motor transport and personnel had been destroyed on the way to the front by Allied air action, and that the remainder were decimated, as soon as they took up their line positions, by Allied tank attacks...
...General Motors' Allison division at Indianapolis announced that it was all ready to produce an engine in the 3,000-h.p. class. Unlike the air-cooled engine builders, who range their cylinders around a crankcase like the spokes of a wheel, Allison turns out liquid-cooled (Prestone) engines with cylinders in banks. The familiar Allison is a V-type, like the famed Rolls-Royce or the twelve-cylinder engine of a Packard motor...
Hunting de Luxe. Rich sportsmen, who paid $2,000 a month for Klein's services, remember him best for streamlining the safari. He blazed motor paths to first-class hunting grounds, organized the East African Guides Association to staff his fleets of cars and trucks. Barring the chase itself, his expeditions became as comfortable as weekend fishing trips...
...Motor Scrapbook (Clymer Motors, $1.50). To Americans for whom an automobile is a 20th Century work of art and its evolution a nostalgic memory, Floyd Clymer's modest scrapbook is a must...
Mounted on a self-propelled M-7 motor carriage, this piece became famous in Egypt as "the Priest," the antitank weapon with the pulpitlike machine-gun mount which broke Rommel's desert line. Another, a modified 105-mm. with a shorter muzzle and mounted on the same carriage as the 75-mm., is used by airborne artillery and infantry heavy weapons units...