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Twenty-six per cent of the officers were employed in the field of education, either as teachers or graduates schools. The largest number are represented in Company A, with 77 men, and the smallest in Company D, with 50. The total number of educators listed...
Cigar Box Fleet. First in were the little LCVPs (Landing Craft Vehicles, Personnel). The second type in were LCMs (Landing Craft, Motorized), which put ashore small tanks and bigger vehicles. Next came LCTs (Landing Craft, Tanks), smallest of the ships which reached Sicily's shores under their own power. LCIs (Landing Craft, Infantry) came next, carrying nearly 200 men apiece. And finally came huge LSTs (Landing Ships, Tanks), which can carry a tremendous cargo. They were hauled forward to the beach by "ducks"-two-and-a-half-ton amphibious trucks...
...roads, trees, rocks painted on it would trick the eyes of Axis airmen. The company finally hit upon 1½ in.-mesh poultry wire, to which chicken feathers are glued with an asphalt adhesive. Because feathers are tough to handle, stick together on damp days, swirl around in the smallest breeze, methods and machines had to be devised to handle them. A special plant was designed to make the wire (20,000 sq. yd. daily) and feed the feathers (25 lb. to every 100 sq. yd.) on to it. (The feathered mesh is sprayed with a neutral color, ready...
...Smallest of the island objectives is humpy, volcanic Pantelleria (see map). Its single harbor, its one known airfield, its coastal and interior fortifications were bombed around the clock last week. Five times in seven days British naval guns raked the island's shores. Apparently Pantelleria was to be the first objective, perhaps with simultaneous moves against the other islands...
...Florey ended on the discouraging, realistic note that "penicillin is as yet available in only the smallest quantities." The A.M.A. gave a similar warning last week to U.S. doctors: though Merck & Co., E. R. Squibb & Sons, Charles Pfizer & Co and the Lederle Laboratories are all making penicillin, "in no instance has production advanced beyond the pilot-plant stage," and supplies for civilian use will be "exceedingly limited." The Army recently tried penicillin on a few veterans from the Pacific suffering from compound fractures, osteomyelitis and wound infections. First results were so good that the Medical Corps will soon extend trials...