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...south, where the footing was firmer, French troops and mechanized U.S. units advanced toward the exotic holy Moslem city of Kairouan. Seizure of Kairouan would threaten Axis communication lines along the whole Tunisian east coast. In the an, the Allies "accounted for two to one in individual combat," Mr. Stimson said. At week's end, able to get in the air again after a stretch of bad weather which had grounded them, Flying Fortresses escorted by P-38s and P-405 bombed Bizerte and Sfax. The P-40s were Warhawks, newest version of the Hawks (others: Tomahawks, Kittyhawks). making...
...Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who with six others was miraculously plucked from tiny rubber rafts in the middle of the South Pacific (TIME, Nov. 23). In War Secretary Stimson's conference room last week Captain Eddie told a group of newsmen his moving story of 24 torturing days adrift...
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson admitted last week that the wartime changes would put a great crimp in the liberal education of men. Yale's President Charles Seymour spoke for most U.S. college presidents when he stressed Yale's determination to carry on as a traditional university...
...before Franklin Roosevelt gave new and sweeping powers to War Manpower Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt (TIME, Dec. 14) he went over the final draft of the order with a group which included McNutt, War Secretary Henry L. Stimson, Navy Secretary Frank Knox, and WPBoss Donald Nelson. When the President came to the section stopping all enlistments in the armed forces, Secretary Knox is said to have begged...
Nevertheless, the War Department had to cut down the volume of cargo space mail was occupying. A month ago War Secretary Stimson pleaded with soldiers not to answer letters from strangers, who might be spies. Peering further, the War Department found misguided patriots contributing to the confusion. In some cases whole counties were writing to Private Johnny Jones of Route 2 to bolster his morale. Teachers found that school children were interested in composition exercises, provided the assigned composition was a letter to a hero...