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With Asdic the harpoon-gunners hoped to follow a sounding whale on his deep dive under the sea, and to be waiting for him when he came up to blow. But the whales, nimbler than U-boats, dove out of Asdic's sonic beam, and the gunners had to rely, as of old, on their knowledge of whale psychology. Radar was useless for spotting surfaced whales, which gave very poor "pips" on its scope. Even at locating antarctic ice it was none too useful in the hands of the whalers' semi-trained operator...
...today is a lithe, 33-year-old mophead named Danny Kaye. Unlike great clowns of the past, he does not wear funny clothes, fall on his prat, throw custard pies or even borrow ancient jokes from Joe Miller. His chief comic assets are a nimble brain and an even nimbler tongue...
...compromise between the lighter, nimbler General Sherman (M4) and the demand for a weapon which could stand up to the Germans' heaviest. Toe-to-toe, the Shermans never could. They had to count on getting around on the Tigers' flanks, where the Germans are more vulnerable. In the kind of confined infighting the U.S. Army ran into four months ago, end runs were seldom possible. The smaller Shermans were badly battered...
...field commanders, said General Campbell, do not want heavy, slow-moving sluggers. He had offered to supply the Army with a 62-ton tank. But the mobility-minded High Command declined them, still did not want them in Europe. U.S. generals, he said, prefer lighter, nimbler armor...
Baldwin, who has made this general charge before, recognized that apologists have said that the U.S. prefers lighter, nimbler tanks. His answer: "But the Germans have demonstrated time and again the maneuverability of 45-to 72-ton tanks, and bridges and rivers have been no obstacle to them. . . . Other apologists have said that tactically we don't believe in fighting tanks with tanks. To which the only possible answer is an expletive...