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...spared. Their losses and those of other outfits had been almost fully made up. One division, which had had two regiments badly chewed up, got two complete new regiments. In addition to piecemeal replacements flowing through the usual channels, service units and other noncombat organizations in the rear were combed for fighting manpower. Special efforts were made to hurry replacement of officers...
...their vast southern conquests as a total loss. Even if they could keep the South China Sea open for supply ships and tankers for a few more weeks, they had already lost heavily on the fuel front: aircraft from four British carriers, commanded by dashing, slashing (but nonflying) Rear Admiral Sir Philip Louis Vian, had bombed the Palembang refineries on Sumatra, cutting by an estimated 75% their high-octane-gasoline output...
...PLANE HAS PROPELLER IN REAR...
...head: Karl T. Compton, president of M.I.T. Other members of the executive committee: Chemist Roger Adams, of the University of Illinois; Alphonse R. Dochez, of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Brigadier General William A. Borden, director of the Army's New Developments Division; Rear Admiral Julius A. Furer, the Navy's coordinator of research...
...ground, the P-59, needing no clearance for a propeller, presents an odd, squat profile with an upswept rear end (to keep out of the way of the hot blast from the jets). Ground crewmen give the plane a wide berth at its takeoff; anyone within 20 feet of the jets would be burned to a crisp. But in the air, the fuel is burned so completely in the combustion chamber that the jets show no flame, even at night. The openings in front of the plane through which air is sucked into the motor posed a problem: they also...