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Unveiled last week were two discoveries which plopped the humble apple smack in the middle of the U.S. war effort...
They ran to a Coast Guard base, panted out their story. Coastguardsmen followed them to the tent. This time it was guarded by a husky teen-aged German-talking youth, who charged at "Neddie" Collins with a bayonet, ran smack into a Coast Guard fist. As Neddie and his pal watched wide-eyed. Guardsmen hauled away spy and radio-a two-way, short-wave station complete with hidden aerial...
...Midland, Tex. he watched a youngster who had trudged in only a week before go 4,000 feet aloft in a twin-engine bombardier-trainer plane, drop a stick of bombs smack in the center of a 100-ft. circle. He saw San Antonio's student navigators, riding on motor-drawn platforms above a classroom map, work out problems they would face in the air. At Harlingen, Tex. he watched blindfolded enlisted men take machine guns apart and put them together again by touch, as they must in the gloom of a tail turret on a night-bombing mission...
...materials to war fronts thousands of miles away, the use of fleets of cargo planes over six continents and seven oceans is no free choice. Something has to be done. The United Nations have been losing the Battle of the Atlantic for a long time now, and they are smack up against logistics-the time-space factor involved in war-supply problems. If Russia, China, Britain, Australia and the Middle East cannot be supplied, the war will be lost. Now it is freight-by-plane, or else...
These small craft, mostly of wood or wood-and-steel construction, cannot successfully fight a submarine. (Already one such patrol craft, the converted fishing smack YP-389, has been sunk by submarine shellfire.) Few are big enough to carry depth charges or adequate guns. Few are fast enough to drop a depth charge and get away far enough to keep their own sterns from being blown off. Their only real use is to report U-boat movements by radio-if the Navy can supply them with radios-and to rescue survivors...