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...miles west of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. other provost officers, aided by Mounties, were staging another manhunt. In two cars and a truck they drove to the road's end at the foot of lonely Gros Cap hill. Then they trudged on snowshoes up the steep hill to a well-hidden, log-and-tar-paper shanty at the top. Outside, the officers pounced on five unshaven, bedraggled youths. Inside they found seven more, plus large stores of butter, canned goods, milk, cigarets, coffee, bread...
...even squirm. After blowing up the station, they get to a flight strip in plenty of time to be picked up by U.S. transports. But when a Jap force keeps the transports from landing, their anabasis begins. They are now faced with a march through some 150 miles of steep-slanted, many-rivered jungle, slithering full of the enemy. From here on, things are really-and realistically-tough...
...blow was coming. But they were strangely unprepared when the white-starred fighters dropped out of the overcast above each of the main airfields around Tokyo and tore across the strips, strafing scores of enemy planes still aground. Dive bombers screamed down almost vertically; Avengers roared in at a steep glide, each with a 2,000-lb. bomb. The Jap air bases erupted flames and smoke...
Demonstrating their tires last week, the inventors drove up & down icy streets, stopped halfway up a steep, icy hill and got off again from a standing start-without slipping or sliding...
Slowly the mercury climbed as the men worked forward through a rough country of dank forests, steep hills, sharp little valleys and winding streams. The snow that had blinded them during the German breakthrough, the ice that had immobilized their trucks turned into deep slush and mud through which they slid and slithered...