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Obviously the main problem arises from the fact that four-tenths of the moon's surface (Winthrop's so-called "backside") is inaccessible to bombardment from the earth. To blast these regions I have designed a cannon combining the better features of a trench mortar and a slow curve. Consisting of a curved barrel mounted on a base equipped with weather bureau, barracks, soda fountain and bond booth, its aim and fire power is controlled by the formula given on the enclosed drawing...
Some of the first wave reached the first German lines. More of the second wave did, then more & more. The quiet of morning broke in a flurry of gunfire from the second and third German trench systems...
...Penicillin lozenges, made of penicillin and gelatin, will clear up trench mouth in a day, tonsillitis in two days, say Britain's Drs. Alexander B. MacGregor and David A. Long. Lozenges have a "very slightly bitter taste" but one patient ate ten in five minutes...
Already the trench-foot rate has been cut 75% simply by making the G.I.s take care of their feet, even in battle. Men are learning to dry their socks on bushes or in their jackets or helmets. In some forward areas, dry socks are issued along with rations. Now improved boots are on the way. They are the Quartermaster Corps' new calf-high shoe-pacs, synthetic rubber up to normal shoe height and leather the rest of the way, designed to be worn with two pairs of heavy socks. Production began in August and a few shoe-pacs have...
Discipline and Massage. The Germans have not licked the problem (in one group of 46 captured German casualties, 14 had trench foot) but the Russians have-thanks to long experience and rigid discipline. All Russian soldiers are paired off, required to massage each other's feet regularly; and the man whose massage buddy gets trench foot catches hell...