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...Northwestern France, Sergeant Robert Beeton of Clinton, N.C. was tooling along a road in a jeep with two buddies. Among them they had a Tommy gun, two pistols...
...British flyers, under a unified command, had not only cut off the battle field of northwestern France from the rest of Europe. They had also made it a place where the Germans' rolling stock could move only by night, where by day tanks, trucks and railroad trains were so efficiently spotted and bombed that no rapid movement could be attempted, no threatened spot reinforced...
This week General Douglas MacArthur moved 200 miles closer to the Philippines. Leapfrogging along the coast of New Guinea, his troops landed on the island's northwestern tip at Sansapor, grabbed two coastal islands in the bargain. Said MacArthur: "The enemy is now unable to operate beyond his Philippine-Halmahera line"-i.e., the Jap was out of New Guinea so far as any more offensive action was concerned...
Across the beautiful barren badlands of northwestern China, past sinkholes, chasms and occasional green valleys, jounced six foreign correspondents, ten Chinese journalists and five alert representatives of Chungking's Ministry of Information...
Will war teach U.S. college students to work harder? Looking through its rosy academic spectacles last week, Evanston's Northwestern University thought the answer might be yes. Anyway, its 53 medically discharged student veterans were averaging 5% higher marks than its 2,000 civilian students. Most of the veterans are studying commercial subjects, some liberal arts...