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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Balance Sheet. For each R.A.F. night raid on Hamburg, 800 planes were used. They required 100,000 ground personnel and 40 to 60 airfields per raid. Lost were 88 bombers and 600 to 700 men. Estimated cost of lost planes and crews: $74,000,000. Dead were unknown thousands of Hamburg residents. Destroyed were seven sq. mi. of city (including 90% of the vital harbor area...
These rugged frontiersmen make up one of the most highly specialized groups in the U.S. Army. Their assignments: 1) to explore unknown parts of the Aleutians and the coastal wildernesses of Alaska, with a wary eye for any sign of Japs; 2) to reconnoiter desolate islands and pave the way for landings in force...
...know of no certainty in war, and that is particularly true of amphibious war. Therefore any mood of overconfidence should be severely repressed. . . . All large and amphibious operations, especially if they require the cooperation of two or more countries, require long months of organization, with refinements and complexities hitherto unknown. In war all impulses, impatient desires and sudden flashes of military instinct cannot hasten the course of events...
Reference your column "Jazz, Etc." on page 6 of the July 6 SERVICE NEWS, suggest you investigate the Hofbran in Lawrence, Mass. I understand Art Hodes is there with a small band, personnel unknown. S/Sgt. George M. Avakian...
Sports at Harvard for the summer, and, in fact, for the duration, are still in the nature of an unknown, quantity. And until the Navy V-12 program gets set, they will have to stay that way, since College teams are dependent upon Navy material to fill out the rosters...