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...Army was showing signs of the imagination, sensible planning and deadly precision that makes an army great. Last week, at Fort Sill, Okla., the artillery opened a school-the first such regular school-to train pilots for grasshopper planes...
...minutes by correcting fire with the aid of the grasshoppers, or in no time at all if the area has been mapped and surveyed. A fire-directing center can then put every gun on the target in another two or three minutes. Reporting on the use of the Fort Sill method on Bataan, General MacArthur declared: "Massing fire, using a direction center, has been, proven beyond question. The Japanese were checkmated and seemed completely bewildered...
...mind, and even the heat could not melt his core of superciliousness when he stalked past the bewildered Freshman about to sign his fifth pressing contract under pressure from three burly salesmen. The last salesman to put his foot in Vag's door had left three toes on the sill; now they let him alone...
...almost invulnerable to attack. On the northern moors countrymen patrol day & night. Golf courses in Kent and Surrey are littered with Home Guard barricades to prevent plane landings. At all strategic crossroads Home Guardsmen man pillboxes, road blocks or well-placed tank traps. Behind every hedgerow, at every cottage sill, at every parish well stands a little body of men who believe not only in England but in themselves...
...Frederick Charles Spreyer now. The former Crimson football great, has been commissioned an officer in Uncle Sam's army, and will be retained at Fort Sill to train the new applicants for officerships, along with 16 other men given a Lieutenant's bar at the same time...