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...Lieut. Maslov commanded a British Valentine (16-ton) tank. He had trouble pronouncing Valentine, but liked the tank. He had a snub nose, tow hair and knew English. He talked of Dickens, Chaucer and Sterne by the hour. He and others in his tank regiment gave Russian Correspondent Ilya Ehrenburg the best measure yet recorded of Allied aid to the U.S.S.R.: "Were our front only 100 miles long, we could say we have enough British tanks." The Russian front is 2,000 miles long...
...R.A.F. had found daylight raids both necessary and feasible. Necessary because the wait for light cloud-covered bombing nights grew too long while the sands of the Red army trickled away and shipping off the U.S. took a terrible licking. Feasible because Britain's newest four-motored bombers, snub-nosed Lancasters, could get up enough speed, carrying several tons of bombs, to raid Germany and return with conservative losses. On three successive days last week Lancasters and slower, longer-ranged Sterlings swept over the Ruhr to paste steel mills, factories, electric plants and other industries that feed Hitler...
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Chief disadvantage of contrarotating propellers is maintenance: warplanes, landing on small unlighted fields by night, snub and flatten their noses all too often, and the propellers' intricate gearing mechanisms are hard to repair. But as motors become ever more powerful, torque-and the need to overcome it-becomes an increasing problem...
...understand that our young people are going to speak this Sunday to all of you American young people. I entreat you to heed their voice and not snub them. We, the Russians, are human beings like others and in this struggle not the least in courage, patriotism, lofty idealism and love of mankind...