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...held Vella Lavella to rescue Helena survivors who were hiding there in the jungles. Two months later off the same shore, she and her sister the Chevalier and the smaller Selfridge met and engaged a force of nine Jap ships, sank three of them and put the rest to rout. The Chevalier, torpedoed, sank. The lucky and valiant O'Bannon survived to win her Presidential citation...
...frontier as fixed in 1940 in accordance with the agreement between Soviet Russia and Rumania [and] treacherously violated by the Rumanian Government, in alliance with Hitlerite Germany. . . . The Supreme Command of the Red Army has given the order to advancing Soviet troops to pursue the enemy until his final rout and capitulation...
...single-purpose weapon, designed to rout troops from trenches, pillboxes, dugouts, similar fortifications, the flamethrower's use is peculiarly fitted to Pacific theaters of operation, where dense foliage permits its use at short range...
...Battle of Crécy (1346) was notable for the introduction of two "secret" weapons by the British-gunpowder (which fizzled) and the longbow, with which the British put the armored French knights to rout. Nevertheless, the Hundred Years War dragged on into the next century without decisive result...
...Columnist Louella O. (for Oettinger) Parsons (from her first husband) turned authoress and brought forth her autobiography, The Gay Illiterate (Doubleday. Doran; $2), her wise publishers jumped their publication date and rushed a few carloads of the remarkable volume to Hollywood's bookstores in time for the Christmas rout. The book sold like...