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Said General Bocek: "Only thus will it be possible for the new Czechoslovak Army not only to make full use of the great fighting experience of the Red Army but also to be formed in the shortest period, without loss of precious time. Our Army, which is destined for fighting, will be formed and grow in battle, and the bureaucratic conception of an army living in barracks while millions of our brothers-in-arms, men of the Red Army and of our other allies, are still fighting will be abandoned...
Laboratoiy workers consider the hamster's laboratory qualifications practically ideal: it is even more susceptible to human diseases than the guinea pig. The gestation period is the shortest known for a mammal-15 days, 21 hours. It begins to mate by its 43rd day, bears its first litter at the age of two months. Thereafter, until the age of one year, when it stops bearing, it can deliver a litter of two to 15 young every month...
A.S.F. Front. The Allies were determined to use the port. It was close to the fighting front. Cherbourg, LeHavre, Marseille were useful (and still are), but the shortest route to the front lay through Antwerp. As soon as Antwerp's port, damaged by the fleeing Germans, was opened again, the Allies lost no time in putting it to work. British supply troops and men of the U.S. Army Service Forces moved...
...first American cargo ship to enter Manila Harbor since 1942 steamed past Corregidor's battered casemates, 24th Division troops stormed tiny Verde Island, midway between Luzon and Mindoro. It was the last Japanese strongpoint astride the shortest sea route...
...southern Luzon Americal Division jungle fighters, veterans of Guadalcanal and Bougainville, seized Capul and Biru, two tiny, strategically important islands dominating San Bernardino Strait, shortest shipping route...