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...Allies will be half of all the shipping in the world. And the Navy, on seven seas, is now sailing in great force over waters that once never carried an American ship bottom. Far-sighted men count on the seagoing power as a great postwar fact; for one, Rear Admiral Jerry Land, wartime maritime boss, intends to hold on to enough U.S. merchant ships to haul at least half America's postwar trade in American bottoms...
Preparation. Last November the Russians began to probe the enemy defenses on Perekop ("Cross-Ditch"), the six-mile-wide northern corridor into the Crimea. One by one, Red scouts mapped the German fire points : 200 in the first line, more in the rear. Other units made ready to cross the Sivash (also called the Putrid Sea), the stagnant, shallow western corner of the Azov Sea. Then the commander, rotund General Feodor Tolbukhin, expert horseman and veteran of Stalingrad, waited...
Nevertheless, said Dr. Lahey to a war-decimated meeting of the American College of Surgeons in Philadelphia, more doctors will be recruited. Reason: poor distribution of doctors in the armed forces. At the front, there are too few doctors; in the rear (which includes Army & Navy hospitals in the U.S.), too many...
...Died. Rear Admiral Edye Kington Boddam-Whetham (pronounced boddom-wettem), 57, famed British sea dog; on active service at Gibraltar. Huge, salty, genial Boddam-Whetham commanded destroyers through World War I, in 1939 retired. Five weeks later he rejoined the Service, during the next three years took some 30 convoys safely through the seven seas, was in charge of a famed, fanatically assaulted Archangel convoy in the fall of 1942. Once during the eight-day air attack one of his escorting destroyers picked off a crippled German plane. Boddam-Whetham flashed a message: "Thought it not done to shoot...
...With red-rimmed eyes which know no sleep, the German soldiers stare into the night's terrible darkness, from which the enemy may appear at any moment. With ears clogged with mud, they listen to the distant roar of tank motors, which just as often come from the rear as from the front...