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...Germans ducked the bombs, picked up the legs, turned them over to Douglas Bader and gave him a gemutlich party. Everyone had a bit to drink. Pilot Bader did wonderful feats on his tin limbs-danced, ran, turned somersaults...
...total blackout; in the streets the blue beam of air-raid wardens' flashlights showed up occasional pedestrians; a traffic light was still on. A squad car with two policemen, wearing tin hats, rolled into the square...
...sorts of baths and sprays cover the floor of the hydrotherapy or bathing room. A specially constructed V-shaped "sitz" bath accomodates a pulled groin when an injured player settles his posterior into it. Two tin bath-tubs resembling those in vogue about 1875 are used to cool or heat a hurt leg, their whirlpools providing a gentle massage which increases the blood circulation. A number of pranksters have had epic water battles with the "fire hose" machine, used by the trainers to message pulled backs with its high-pressure stream...
Second, and just as important, camp taught the 115 cadets what the life of the ordinary soldier is. They got up at 5:40, at out of their tin messkits and lined up to wash them, did K.P. dug ditches, drove trucks, stood guard, and stood inspection. They learned to do calisthenics while their eyes were so full of sleep that they couldn't see the officer leading them. They learned to curse, literally like troopers. They learned what a Wellesley Freshman feels like checking out of camp and back in the latter...
...Axis, especially the Italians, have been chocking reinforcements into Libya all summer, as fast as they could get them past the British. That was not very fast. Since Nazi bombers retired to Russia, the British Fleet has had a better time of it. Last week British submarines drove tin fish into a 10,000-ton Italian heavy cruiser; and into a big Italian liner, believed to be the 23,635-ton Duilio and into the 11,398-ton Esperia; planes of the Fleet Air Arm torpedoed and destroyed an Italian destroyer off Tripoli; others bombed merchant ships in Tripoli harbor...