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...York Times last week he serialized his story (somewhat toned down to suit the conservatism of the Times). Captured with a British tank brigade which was nearly destroyed in Libya, he was photographed by Field Marshal Rommel, a candid camera bug who sometimes popped out of a tank turret to lecture his captives on their tactical errors. Contriving to get himself turned over to Italy rather than Germany, he was treated "almost with perfect courtesy." But when the Germans forced his surrender to them, he was taken to Berlin and put in solitary confinement. Grilled mercilessly about unflattering stories...
...bone laboratories in the Museum are often asked by the police to examine skulls for possible cases of homicide. In wartime, the anthropologist has even greater usefulness, for it is up to his research and his statistics to determine what should be the size of a machine-gun turret so as to fit the greatest number of soldiers and to draw up dimensions for uniforms to clothe the average draftee. And what man could be more valuable to the nation's war effort than the anthropologist, who, by virtue of his explorations in the Far East and South Seas...
...TURRET CAPTAINS...
Take charge of a gun turret and a turret crew, assemble and disassemble guns of large and small calibre; know all of the tools used in gunnery; know the standard, markings for ammunition. Understand the details and operation of directorscopes, periscopes and range finders. How to hoist and handle ammunition and all safety precautions involved in gunnery. Recognize all types of Naval pyrotechnics, and be able to make tests of smokeless powder. Understand the principles of fire control, the principles of electricity involved, and how to handle and adjust recoll, counter-recoll, gas ejectors, and firing mechanisms...
...recent combat, an untried youngster missed one Jap Zero after another. "Look, Joe," said Sergeant Silva, "you're not leading them enough, and your shots are going behind them." Silva grabbed the gun and squinted from the Flying Fortress turret. Four Zeros flashed by. Three of them, perhaps the fourth fell apart under Silva's fire. "See, Joe?" Silva yelled. During the same fracas, the pilot inquired over the Fortress interphone: "Are you firing at the enemy?" Sergeant Silva replied: "Sir, I've already shot down two, goddamit...