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What makes the jet-propulsion plane fly is the extreme pressure built up within the mechanism by air compression and burning fuel. This pressure is exhausted to the rear through the jet opening, thus exerts a powerful forward reaction, or thrust, on the plane...
Battle For Survival. The retreat was not yet a rout: the Teutonic habit of obedience was still firm, the armies' strength was still great, the commanders still able. But, however masterly, it was a retreat. Momentary survival, a postponement of utter defeat, might lie somewhere in the rear. But victory could not lie there. Victory lay in the opposite direction...
...path of the British Eighth Army's long march up Italy's Adriatic shore. Most of Ortona's 9,000 folk fled as the Germans mined the approaches, built barricades in the streets, burrowed tanks into the cellars, brought up flame throwers, posted suicide rear guards...
Major General Sherman Miles, Commanding General of the First Service Command; Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald, Commandant of the First Naval District; and Rear Admiral Richard H. Laning, Medical Corps, First Naval District, represented the armed forces at the ceremonies. The Army trainees were commissioned First Lieutenants, and the Navy trainees Lieutenants...
...hour after the landing, Fireman First Class Aurelio Tassone of Milford, Mass. was roaring along on his 20-ton 'dozer when he spotted an enemy strongpoint. Skirting the coconut-logged bunker, he came at it from the rear. Bullets banged off the big blade which he had raised as a shield. The tractor rolled on like its armored offspring, the tank...