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Sergeant York is not a picture of trench warfare, but a story of an American country boy and how he came to fight for his country. So much of the film is given to the painstaking development of his character that his heroic feat, when it comes, is merely an extension of the everyday heroism of a dignified, impoverished mountain people...
Bleak as the outlook appears at this point, the time to stop fighting for peace has not come, nor will it unless there is an actual declaration of war and we are stopped of necessity. There is no compromise with war. We are standing in our last trench. If we do not put up a fight now, we shall be fighting in a different sort of battle soon enough...
...forecast for World War II ran counter to the experiences of the Spanish Civil War. Reviewer Wintringham "was appalled at the theory of warfare, the idea of what war is like, stated in and coloring all this book." Werner's theory: the tank and airplane have revolutionized warfare; trench warfare is ended; offensive strategy and tactics will aim at final destruction of the enemy. Battle for the World is Werner's documentation of his 1939 forecast from the last year of Europe's military history...
...Master Sgt. Clifford Algy Poutre, the lean, leathery boss pigeon man at the Signal Corps pigeon lofts on the Jersey flats at Fort Monmouth, liked to say that the Army would hear from Gimpy some day. His breed was right. His father, old red Kaiser, captured in a German trench in the Argonne, is still the oldest military pigeon in the business (24 last month), and his Scotland-hatched mother had good blood...
...railroad history. Within its short 2.2 miles, contractors burrowed under or over six other rapid transit tunnels, had to hold up the heavy overhead Sixth Avenue El (since torn down) and most of the buildings along the route with piles driven down to bed rock. The cut & cover method (trench-like excavation covered with wooden flooring) necessitated digging through a tangle of telephone cables, power lines, water mains, gas pipes, pneumatic mail tubes, sewer pipes, steam mains, telegraph wires, police and fire alarm lines, conduits for refrigerator brine, burglar alarm wires, quotation ticker lines, traffic signal wires. Without suspending these...