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Mary Churchill, 19, youngest daughter of Prime Minister Churchill, got promoted to sergeant in the khaki-covered Auxiliary Territorial Service, went into action with her gun-predictor team against Nazi bombers over London. She also went to a dance in a London suburb. There she met U.S. Private and ex-Truckdriver Bill

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 10, 1942 | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

Turning the little knobs on her gun predictor for the first time in real action, 18-year-old Private Nora Caveney matched up the pointers, cried: "On target." As the guns spat, came the high whine of German bombs, a crash. A hot, jagged bomb splinter ripped through the sandbags and struck Nora Caveney in the chest. Another girl jumped into her place; another treble cry went up: "On target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CASUALTIES: On Target | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

Colonel Hashimoto is an extremist's cynosure: he is tough, aggressive, cruel, tenacious, mystical. He loves action, and he acts by instinct. His body and mind are as hard as steel but also as sensitive as an ack-ack predictor. He learned the technique of revolution as a Japanese military attaché by watching Russian barricades in 1917. By 1931, he commanded a heavy-artillery unit in Manchuria, and was one of those responsible for the Manchurian incident of that year. Five years later he was one of the plotters in the bloody "February Revolt," in which many Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Blood-Red Patriot | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...want to become too much of a predictor, but I do believe that the next revolution will not be concerns with national causes, but will be base on economic developments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: High Birth Rate Factor in Social Development Leading to Hitler's Success, Says Rosenstock | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

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