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Eight official A.W.V.S. uniforms included breeches and boots for the cycle corps, ski-troop suits for workers in the far North (couriers, spotters, dogsled teamsters in Saranac, N.Y., Alaska, etc.). For A.W.V.S. fingernails, light polish was prescribed; hairdo: simple, preferably short, up off the neck...
Though the Army today has only about 7,000 mules-about half the number it had ten years ago-it has never discovered anything on wheels that could replace the mule. As careless of heat and cold as of man's advice, the mule has no substitute as troop or cargo carrier in jungle, desert, or mountain pass. In Panama the mule has proved far better than trucks in climbing steep trails, working through lush forests...
...came before the next dawn: "Dec. 11, 5 a.m. landing attempt by twelve Jap ships, including light cruisers, destroyers, gunboats, two troop or supply ships. Jap casualties: one light cruiser, two destroyers, one gunboat, two bombers...
...dawn invasion barges filled with Commandos put off from warships, streaked toward the rocky shores of the Norwegian islands of Vaagsoy and Maaloy, assembly point for German troop and supply ships bound for the Russian front. The warships poured broadsides of 50 shells a minute into German gun positions; overhead R.A.F. planes dodged German tracer bullets. Fires blazed on ammunition dumps hit by shells and bombs...
...with their own eyes how well the drive was going. As usual, New York Times's Cyrus L. Sulzberger painted the most vivid picture of the Russian effort: "White-helmeted infantrymen armed with automatic rifles and dragging metal ammunition cases be hind them on the snow, shuffling ski troops, cavalrymen on heavily furred horses, with rifles strapped to their backs and brass-handled sabers rattling by their sides, tractor-drawn supply sleighs and powerful howitzers, long columns of tanks and caterpillar troop carriers slogging past the wrecked debris of recent battles...