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Trouble loomed from the outset. Soon after Italy capitulated, a handful of British airborne troops took a handful of Dodecanese and Aegean islands off Turkey's west coast. Their aim: air bases, harbors from which to harass from the rear the Nazis' outer chain of Balkan defenses-the islands of Rhodes, Scarpanto and Crete...
...Public Enemy No. 1. Boss of the raiders is Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood Jr., who, when he was promoted from Rear Admiral, sent a message to his force expressing pride that the work of Submarines Pacific had brought him the advancement. The Navy's youngest Vice Admiral (53), he frequently rides the subs with his commanders. He has served in submarines for most of his career. His first command was one of the first submarines to go beyond the experimental stage the A2, in 1914. His immediate superior is a submarine man whose son is in the service...
...provided it last week with an official map of the summer and fall gains. Last April, the Red Army published a map showing the gains of the previous winter. On the western fringe of that map lay Odessa, Kiev, Mogilev, Vitebsk-all still deep in the enemy's rear. On the western fringe of the map published in Moscow newspapers last week lay Bucharest, Warsaw, Konigsberg in East Prussia...
...Russia, which was once short of ambulances, now has mobile hospitals at the rear and even right behind the lines...
...deep and thoughtful man. A tall, awkward, lonely, violin-playing boy whose father died when he was twelve, he did not want to be a soldier. He wanted to work in a bank. He learned the effectiveness of the armies of revolutionary France when he commanded the rear guard in the Duke of York's disastrous expedition to The Netherlands in 1794, from which 6,000 of 25,000 recruits returned. With the clear-sightedness of innocent sanity he knew thereafter that England could be invaded...