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...officer or civilian can write for Yank. Its staff consists exclusively of Army enlisted men plus two sailors and a marine sergeant. Every one has endured the tortures of basic training and most of them take their turn at an overseas front covering troop life and action for Yank...
Last week a sudden spurt of activity in and near Spain focused the world's attention there. Most of the activity was political, but 400 German troop trains were reported to have moved recently toward France's Spanish border. Eleven divisions were said to be massed on the Mediterranean end of the frontier. Germany closed the border area as a military zone...
...flooded crater of an extinct volcano which gives deep water almost to the shore. In peacetime Rabaul's tiny wharf was used chiefly by island trading ships of two companies, W. R. Carpenter & Co. and Burns Philp & Co. Now the harbor is a great Japanese naval and troop-transport center. From it, short and efficient supply lines radiate to forward bases above both shoulders of Australia-a score of spots such as Kupang on Timor and Gizo in the Solomons. From those forward bases, which like Rabaul have come in for a dose of heavy bombing, the Japs would...
They came on bicycles - runty, bowlegged little men in cheap, stained uniforms, half of them wearing spectacles, only one out of every 25 armed with a machine gun, the rest carrying .25-caliber rifles. They were drenched in old sweat - "you could smell a troop of Japs 100 feet away . . . they smelt like hell...
...aware, troop movements of the armed forces ... are matters of a highly confidential nature. ... It is assumed . . . that you will so regard the arrival in Hollywood of ... This is the Army, Irving Berlin's . . . troupe . . . constitutes a task force carrying out an operation...