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Said a rugged old officer: "Soldiers measure their lives in months, anyway, if they are worth a damn as soldiers. Going aboard transports, they ought to have something to take their minds off submarines and seasickness."
The Job. In attacking Attu, the Army & Navy simply cut around the Jap forces on strongly held Kiska, presumably proposed to deal with them later or to starve them out. Although the Japs apparently had a relatively small force on Attu, they had a strong position. Only 35 miles long...
In the grey Atlantic swells off the rugged Donegal coast bobbed a strange, black, knobby object. The young fishermen of Ballymanus village strolled down to the sea, stared and wondered. At length came the official coast watcher. It was a mine, he warned: let no one touch it.
Not since Finn Paavo Nurmi's memorable visit nearly a generation ago has a European athlete started for the U.S. with a better build-up than Gunder Hägg. Last summer he broke ten world's records at distances ranging from 1,500 to 5,000 meters...
Rugged, white-haired Andy Andrews had been one of the first U.S. commanders to see the future role of air power and, in particular, the possibilities in long-range bombing. More than once he had stuck out his square jaw against all rules of Army protocol and politics, and after...