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Bearing the brunt of U.S. antitank defense were two reliables: 1) the M36 (Slugger) with a high-velocity 90-mm. gun; 2) the fast, low-slung M18 (Hellcat) and its 76-mm. pieces. But the best antitank weapon of all is the rocket-firing fighter-bomber-weather permitting...
Only Children Chattered. Only the children laughed or talked loudly, still resilient in suffering. One man carried a child pickaback (he stopped us and asked in good, crisp English what the news was from the German battlefront). Others carried children in baskets slung from shoulder staves. One enormous Bactrian camel bore a little child between its two humps...
Last week the Ammunition Division of Army Ordnance came up with two machines to do the job better. One looks like a milking machine for a 24-teat cow ("mechanical cow"), the other resembles 24 round bayonets slung under a steel bar ("hot bayonets"). Now being standardized at all Army ordnance plants, they are expected to save five million man-hours this year...
...life. As military attache at the U.S. legation in Peiping, his reports were concise, but packed with information. Soon he won the reputation of being an authority on Chinese affairs. He studied in books and at first hand. His lean, leathery figure, bedroll and knapsack slung over his shoulder, became a familiar one, tramping across China's flat, dusty, northern countryside. He liked to mingle with the chiupa, the rugged riflemen who, since the Manchu dynasty was overthrown (1911), have borne the burden of their nation's endless civil wars...
...spaces allotted, they fell asleep, and slept like logs on the tops of lorries, on the pavement, on ammunition. Some slept on the bonnets of lorries, others inside with their feet poking out -sometimes without boots on. Those who stayed a few days made themselves hammocks and slung them between the buffers of vehicles, or erected microscopic tents and crawled inside. If they were parked outside a house with a lawn, they slept on it after dark, as it was a bit softer...