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Because they have no weather reports, they resort to makeshifts, take chances. Old flying boats venture out and up through pea-soup overcasts, often to rescue flyers from a sea so cold that few men have survived after floating in it for more than 30 minutes. More men and planes have been lost to the weather than to the Japs...
...turns up with a better weather yarn, airmen of the Aleutians forces will stick to Hannibal, the hitchhiking sea gull. Hannibal, the story goes, turned up on the wing of a Navy Catalina patrol boat one day when it was feeling its way, barely above the sea, in a pea-soup fog. The pilot decided that if the weather was too thick for Hannibal it was too thick for a PBY, too. He landed. As the plane rippled to a stop, Hannibal took off, soared to a full-stall landing, and swam off into...
...pea-shooters and small arms used by its critics to snipe at the War Administration were put aside this past Lincoln's Birthday weekend. This opposition, grasping the opportunity presented by the all-quietness of the military fronts and the American people's susceptibility to pseudo-patriotic harangue on a national holiday, let fly with its heavy artillery, and the ammunition was spotted with verbal dum-dum bullets...
...brief, there is hardly a front where the United Nations are fighting -from the water-logged trenches along the Yangtze to the frozen steppes above Rostov, from pea-soup air above the North Sea to the deserts of Africa and the steaming jungles of New Guinea and Guadalcanal-but what at least one of TIME'S writers in New York can tell you first hand just what it feels like to be there with our fighting men, and fill in the cables from TIME'S regular correspondents from their own personal knowledge of the battlefronts of this...
Beside the bridge, Signalman 1st Class Ralph Moore, pea jacket buttoned tight, watch cap pulled down over his ears, fiddled with a blinker signal. Beating his spray-flecked gloves together for warmth, Moore reported a destroyer's signal to take up position in the escort...