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Guns. Voronov won and still wins his victories with the number, not quality, of his cannon. His order to the designers was: make them simple to handle, sturdy enough to survive the harsh terrain and weather, effective enough to stop the tanks. The order was filled well. The Germans proved it by shipping captured Russian guns for use in Africa...
...Ledo Road. Purpose of Uncle Joe Stilwell's latest drive-460 miles northeast of Mountbatten's southward push toward Akyab-is to march across northern Burma over some of the world's cruelest, most miasmic terrain, clearing Japs from the path of the new Ledo Road which hopefully will connect with the old Burma Road. Thus eventually a route to China may be opened to supplement supply by airplanes flying the "hump...
...transferred to Europe. Over jagged, mountainous terrain, Pop and his boys sometimes hurtled only 300 ft. above the ground, sometimes hurtled through the stratosphere, uncovering enemy secrets, with their lenses mapping Italy from the toe up. One of his pilots made six low-level missions through enemy ack-ack around Mt. Cairo, finally got the pictures the Allied commanders needed before they began their attack. Pop himself did much of the photo work on the Anzio beachhead...
Army airmen thundering over the treacherous Alaskan terrain frequently hear the voices of women coming over...
Since its first big counterattack before Moscow in 1941, the Shtab had plotted a dozen major and scores of minor offensives. From these a definite pattern had emerged. A drive's duration depended on weather, terrain, German defenses, human endurance, condition of roads, ability of the transport system to feed the offensive...