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Adolf's Pride. The Germans cabled to the U.S. a picture which they said showed some Nazi shock troops proudly holding a Russian battle flag which they had captured in bitter fighting. Anyone who could read Russian could see that the flag was a Boy Scout pennant. Its inscription: Be Prepared-Be Prepared...
...give the Fourth bigger fists and nimbler feet, while its fire power will be upped its man power will be cut-from 15,550 to 14,000. Machine-gun equipment will go up from 282 to 465, cannon (75s, 105s and 155s) from 48 to 66. Ten armored scout cars will be added to the 16 now in the reconnaissance troop. Fifty-two light and 54 medium tanks will be added to blast a way for the Fourth's infantrymen, who will ride to battle in halftrack caterpillar troop carriers...
...that China's Red Army, by superior organization, popularity, and whirlwind guerrilla tactics, has been the major factor in keeping the Japanese at bay, while other writers have shown Chiang Kai-shek as gradually changing from the dictatorial leader of semi-fascist Blue Shirts to a fatuous boy scout pottering around in Chungking with that New Life Movement which caused W.H.Auden and Christopher Isherwood so many suppressed giggles (Journey to a War: TIME...
Ambition. In Spartanburg, S.C., a Venezuelan Boy Scout neared the end of an 18,000-mile hike, said he planned to take a plane home...
...flying boats. Along with their flying watchmen, these planes can also carry bombs or torpedoes for attacking enemy ships. Assigned to Bermuda was a close-in combat flier (Lieut. Commander Robert F. Hickey), who now heads a group on the aircraft carrier Ranger (fighters, torpedo planes, scout bombers...