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...Because Well Just Look At That Dumb Shavetail." The Army is chuck full of officers, so forget it if you're thinking of having your Old Man buy you a commission in the Black Watch or the Third Highland Fusileers when you graduate from A-12 or Boy Scout Troop...
Aboard one of the many troop transports plowing the long sea furrows to Tarawa, and later in the hell of Betio, was TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod. His story...
...sight. One battle zone or the other would have to remain weak, or reinforcements would have to be rushed from distant zones. Chungking reports indicated that the Japanese might be doing just this: fleet concentrations were said to be moving south off Fukien Province, and heavy troop movements were taking place from Manchukuo and North China...
...ships snake about as nimbly as Fred Astaire. swaying from side to side with rhythmic ebullience. The Japs, boiling mad, fail to attack the troop-laden transports, concentrate instead on the escorts...
...Cherkassy direction our troops . . . together with guerrillas . . . struck an unexpected blow. . . . In October several guerrilla detachments in the Tarnopol region blew up 33 enemy troop trains, two armored trains and a railway bridge. . . . At the beginning of November the Germans sent out a large punitive expedition against one of the guerrilla detachments. In a two-day engagement the Soviet patriots wiped out more than 100 enemy officers and men and forced the enemy to retreat...