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...Army, which runs the Government, boasts 100,000 men, with first-class equipment for about 50,000 others. Its materiel and arsenals are fine but its experience is nil; in the last war Thailanders were used only for labor. The Navy consists of a few Italian and Japanese torpedo boats and destroyers, and four submarines. Some think the submarines can submerge, some think they cannot. The Navy has never tried. It recently offered to take some newspapermen out to prove the submarines could submerge. The newspapermen demurred. The Navy called the experiment off. The Air Force consists...
...offshore, grimly pouring broadside after broadside into the flaming town. In an extraordinarily daring exploit, one British "light vessel" (possibly a destroyer) penetrated Bardia's inner harbor, and in a hail of Italian machine-gun fire from shore, sank three Italian supply vessels. The Italians tried, with torpedo planes, to drive off the iron-clad fortresses which their shore batteries could not hit or harm, but the R. N. stood its water in a historic demonstration of naval fire power supporting a land attack. The R. N. also supplied water, food and munitions to the land forces, which were...
...British said: one of their Swordfish punctured the biggest Italian battleship; another torpedo hit the Bolzano (heavy cruiser) and a Skua's bomb hit a Condottieri (light) cruiser; fire from the Renown and the British cruisers damaged another heavy cruiser and two destroyers. Total: six strikes, which reduced Italy's serviceable battleships to two, her cruisers to 16, as against only one British ship struck, the cruiser Berwick, which lost seven men killed, nine injured when hit by two shells, but was still ready for action...
...Italians said (and took correspondents to a naval base to prove) that only their heavy cruiser Fiume was hit (by one shell-which did not explode), and the destroyer Lanciere, which was badly hurt. Their 35,000-ton Vittorio Veneto outmaneuvered the torpedo planes, dodged their projectiles. Meantime their guns and planes smacked one British battleship, three cruisers and the Ark Royal. In the air they claimed 13 British planes shot down to two Italians (the British said two Italians, one British...
...happens when Gene goes back to his home town of Torpedo to act as honorary sheriff for a local celebration. The Wildhacks have been running Torpedo from an upstairs gambling room in their saloon, and poor old Pop (George "Gabby" Hayes), the good, grizzled, granddaddy of the town, has all but given up hope for happy days again. When Gene is slapped around by the Wildhacks, Pop has to take him out to Melody Ranch for some western air and exercise before Gene can dish out the necessary retribution...