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...weaker side had committed its reserves and was failing. Then the stronger would strike the knockout blow. He would send in his cavalry, ripping through the flagging line, then pour infantry through the breach while his horsemen drove on, carving a decision in the enemy's disorganized rear areas...
What Voronov did in Finland, after Russia had had her first humiliating but educational reverse, set the pattern for today's battles. First, his artillerymen took positions far in the rear, practiced with replicas of the Finnish strongholds. Then they moved their heavy guns close to the Mannerheim Line. Firing over open sights at individual bunkers they methodically uprooted them, and the infantry moved in. For the feat, Stalin made him Colonel General of Artillery...
Navy Fumbling. The Navy had been building self-propelled steel lighters for years, by 1940 had tried several designs. None of them impressed the forces afloat with their seaworthiness. In the summer of 1941, the Bureau of Ships (then headed by Rear Admiral Samuel M. Robinson) yielded to pressure, called in famed Boat-Builder A. J. Higgins...
Roth: We can't afford it. We had a test down in Norfolk yesterday. Captain Edward L. Cochrane (now rear admiral and head of the Bureau) went down, Commander Daggett went down, the Army went down [interrupted]. Well, they had a showdown at Norfolk, but a little breeze blew up. . . . The Bureau tank lighter almost capsized. They couldn't steer it. They just drifted around...
...speed. Plug in the two-way radio to order your dinner ahead. ... For a short cut across a river ... the Amphibian is at home on the water. . . . Navigation lights are for cruising on a Venetian night. The four-wheel drive shifts to propellers. . . . The air-cooled motor in the rear operates air conditioning and heating." But dream-car talk usually starts production-minded auto men to shattering their glass-topped desks. They have patiently explained that the first postwar cars will be 1942 models, that dream cars may not come until five or ten years later. But designers, unperturbed, like...