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...There were few heavy trucks to carry supplies. (Rommel had used 50,000 trucks in his advance on El Alamein.) There was little material for repairing and maintaining airfields. These things had been sacrificed to make room for men and the arms they could carry. The intention was to swoop into Tunis and Bizerte and seize them before the Axis could get set for a defense...
...that every part of a tank or gun or airplane will be assured of the same preferred position in the disbursement of scarce materials. Moreover, if changes in military strategy dictate a change in any armament program, a cutback or an increase can be applied with one fell swoop to an entire program...
...ever landed intentionally on the jagged, crevasse-slashed icecap. Parunak and Balchen, in a PBY flying boat, surveyed for six days, drop ping sleeping bags and food, never daring a landing. The stranded men watched and bit chapped lips. On the seventh day they saw the flying boat swoop low and disappear into the snow. Pilot Parunak had found a "dimple" of water filling an ice valley twelve miles away, had chanced a landing on this temporary lake. He set Balchen's rescue party ashore, then took off again to direct them to the Fortress. The rescue party fought...
This record is all the more remarkable because the principal business of Stormoviks is not to shoot down Nazis. The Stormoviks are ground-strafers. With their two cannon and two machine guns, they swoop down to ten or 15 meters, then blast away at tanks, motorized vehicles, grounded planes and troops. One of our visitors was a young lieutenant who had the tail of his Stormovik shot away when he was hardly ten meters (32 ft.) off the ground. Nevertheless he landed well inside the Russian lines, with his hip and both sides of his face injured, and walked back...
...thorough, but the suggestion of a Pan-Europa based on regional divisions with cultural autonomy but political dependence upon the whole cannot be called thoroughly realistic. There are in Europe so many nationalistic egos that it will certainly be difficult to wipe out the national units at one fell swoop...