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...Pike, whose permanent home address is listed as Concord, North Carolina, has been attached to two naval fight activities in the South since his graduation from Annapolis in 1935. First of the series of administrative assignments was with the Aviation Cadet Regiment at Pensacola, Florida, the navy's oldest flight training-base...
Highlight of the brief affair was a close-order drill by the Naval Science regiment, executed with timing and precision. After the ROTC exhibition, which was preceded by a simultaneous salute of welcome to the visiting notables, the entire unit passed before Admiral Theobald, Captain George N. Barker, USN, and Dean Buck...
...British Ministry of Economic Warfare estimates that total German industrial production was down 20% since 1942; that no attempt has been made to repair the damage done to a large number of high-priority targets in Germany by the Allied aerial pounding. German stocks & bonds, even on the regimented market, were in acute decline. Food was just sufficient to prolong life and sustain work; the clothing ration for civilians was completely suspended on Aug. 1; the coal ration this year will be 70% of the 1941 allowance-and in that winter city-dwellers wore overcoats in their homes and there...
They were Negro and white troops. Advance contingent was a regiment of engineers who had built Army bases in Canada. Their camps were exotic-clusters of bamboo bashas (huts) surrounded by giant hardwoods, wild growths of pale orchids, glistening green jungles. But incessant rains drenched them. Roving Jap patrols sniped at them. They were enervated by the heat, plagued by hordes of mosquitoes and bloodthirsty leeches that suck a man white if he drops from wounds or exhaustion...
...Lang spent many censored and newsless weeks with General Mark Clark's hidden Fifth Army in Africa waiting for it to jump off on the invasion. At the last minute he gave his place in the attack to Jack Belden-then rushed to the front with a reserve regiment after Belden was wounded during the first landings at Salerno...