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...move to consolidate gains of the past year and prepare the terrain for further advance along the journalistic front, editors of the Muzzle Blast, Military Science Department weekly, have reorganized their command and appointed new officers...
Work on the bases has already begun. Building an airfield on the rough terrain would be a major engineering job, but there are sheltered coves for seaplanes, good anchorages for ships. The workers and sailors will have to import water; on Albermarle, which has almost no fresh water, the ranchers and cattle hands drink coconut juices, wash in salt water...
...mountains offered the Red Army a magnificent chance to stop the Germans, if, instead of depending passively on terrain to do the job, they made aggressive use of their greater knowledge of hidden valleys and obscure roadways, of their opportunities for ambush and sudden flank attack, of the fact that German air power is less useful in the mountains than on level battlefields...
...Nasty terrain!" exclaimed the Prime Minister, looking down on some of the desert of French North Africa. "What would happen if we couldn't go on?" "Knock the kite around a bit, but nobody'd get hurt," Ruggles guessed...
...behind the Axis. A new camp abuilding in Colorado (elevation 9,500 ft.) will train a whole division. This is only a small start. Of possible U.S. theaters of war, nearly a fifth are mountainous: e.g., Alaska, the Canal Zone, Iceland, Malaya, Norway, Yugoslavia, Greece. In such terrain, where mechanized divisions stall, the U.S. may some day have to depend on its mountain troopers and slogging, sure-footed mules...