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Every week Canada at War Editor Sanford Lee Cooper and Richard Draper get the full reports of the Canadian Press (Canada's Associated Press, a service received by no other magazine in America)-and every week this team follows the reporting in 47 Canadian newspapers and magazines. But even more important to TIME's coverage of Dominion news is our own staff of Canadian correspondents...
...Gertrude Sanford Legendre (Mrs. Sidney Jennings Legendre), 42, adventure-loving socialite who was the first U.S. woman captured on the western front (last September), escaped from the Germans, fled across the border to Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, still wearing the service uniform in which she worked as interpreter and secretary...
Volunteers. On the day before this crisis, slim, restless Major General Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, commander of the U.S. Ninth Air Force, had popped into the headquarters of 40-year-old Major General Elwood Ricardo Quesada, head of one of the Ninth's chief components-the IX Tactical Air Command, whose fighter bombers were stationed back of the First Army. "Van" Vandenberg and "Pete" Quesada went over reports, decided that this was the real thing. The immediate task was to muster every fighter bomber into attacks, to impede Rundstedt's armored spearheads. Generals Van and Pete faced hard facts...
...Gertrude Sanford Legendre, 42, peacetime Manhattan socialite and world-touring big-game hunter, was hailed by the Nazis as the "first American woman" captured on the western front when she fell into enemy hands in Wallendorf, where she was working with a service organization. Daughter of the late millionaire rug maker John Sanford, in 1929 she explored the Mountains of the Moon, Ethiopia, with Sidney and Morris Legendre, Princeton athletes (1925) and sportsmen. She brought back wild Yaha hunting dogs, then married Sidney Legendre, now a Navy lieutenant commander, who last week was in Washington on leave from Pacific duty...
...Navy Lieut. Eugene Sanford, ex-policeman from Evanston, Ill., was riding in a launch off Saipan when he saw a big PB2Y flying boat sinking. Japs who had been hiding in Saipan's caves for three months had swum out to the plane and blown a hole in it with a hand grenade. Lieut. Sanford killed the Japs with a Tommy gun-a fate which they must have known was inevitable...