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...Hollandia, 600 miles from the New Guinea front. At week's end, under air cover and a heavy naval bombardment, seaborne Australian troops made an end run around both Salamaua and Lae, staged a large-scale amphibious landing above Lae to cut off both Jap bases from their overland supply...
...miles. U.S. troops had one waiting for President Roosevelt at Casablanca. Everywhere the tough, square, squat jeeps are bouncing the backsides of the United Nations. Potentates and savages ride jeeps; soldiers regard them fondly, pat their rugged sides. But the fondest pats of all come from Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., foster parent of the jeep. To Willys the jeep is a plug-ugly duckling who laid a golden...
Thrice weekly Nazi troops avoid the dangers of coastal sea transport by traveling overland through Sweden from Storlien farther north to Riksgränsen. But most galling of all are the two "Reichswehr special" trains, sealed and guarded by Swedish soldiers, packed each day with 1,000 German troops being relieved at Oslo and replaced by fresh troops from Germany. The sight of well-fed Germans hanging out of train windows, yoohooing at Swedish girls, and carrying packages of food, butter and herrings out of starving Oslo is almost too much to stomach. So much public pressure has built...
...best chance to really get at the heart of Japan through offensive operations is from China. If we had an ample supply of airplane fuel inside China, we could really put on an offensive. . . . Now, why not lay a pipeline from some East Indian port overland to Chungking or some suitable base, and pipe the fuel in ? ... A five-or six-inch pipe could carry a lot of fuel. The line would not have to be buried, just follow the contour of the ground, up valleys, along ridges, etc. The pipe should be available from the iron foundries of India...
...From primary bases in the United Kingdom and the U.S. it is 1,400-3,700 miles to west North African ports. It is from there that the central and northern Tunisian fronts are fed. Supplies are landed chiefly at Casablanca on the Atlantic and carried 1,100 miles overland, or at Algiers on the Mediterranean and hauled 450 miles overland...