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...Axis losses in all African campaigns: Germans killed, permanently disabled, taken prisoner, lost in transit-250,000; Italian losses in North and East Africa-39 divisions, 470,000 men. Total Axis losses in North Africa: 600,000 men, 2,000 tanks, 1,500 guns, 5,000 aircraft, 3,000 motor vehicles...
Aircraft also had the job of interdicting Axis withdrawals by sea. This was peculiarly an air job, because the Germans were using Siebel motor barges - too shallow in draft to be torpedoed, too well armed to be attacked efficiently by motor torpedo boats' machine guns, too small to be worth risking large naval units for, and fast enough (twelve knots) to cross the Sicilian Channel under cover of dark ness. Aircraft caught some by day, for the Germans were unquestionably trying to get away as much valuable personnel as possible. Late in the week the Axis was estimated...
...Army has learned the desirability of its soldiers in skirts, not merely as ersatz men, but for their own sakes and skills. The four specific jobs (communications, administrative specialists, motor transport, cooks and bakers) for which the WAACs were first enrolled have grown to more than 140. Examples: code clerk, toolroom keeper, truckmaster and cartographer...
...line with its policy of a maximum of practical work, the ROTC has scheduled another all day RSOP to Middlesex Fells tomorrow. The battery plans to leave at 0900 from the motor shed, and the volunteers will take two of the new howitzers to the State Reservation about six miles north of here for maneuvers, Box lunches will be consumed in the field and the battery expects to return about...
...such times as they could be persuaded to leave the ground," says Author Michaelis, Britain's early planes could range for 50 miles at a flat-out speed of 37 m.p.h. The cylinders of "this phenomenon of motor engineering" were attached to the propeller, whirled around with it, spewing a castor-oil lubricant through their aching joints. Rotary engines of this type were used on the lighter machines right up to the end of World War I and the castor-oil fumes were said to have produced "the most stimulating results to the health of ... pilots...