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...Wilmott Ragsdale, about whom I last told you when he was looping the loop with our desert glider students at Twentynine Palms and swooping down Mt. Rainier with the ski troopers, is now with the U.S. Army in Britain...
TIME Correspondent Wilmott Ragsdale cabled this account of Luftwaffe tip-&-run raids which have done little military damage but have made village life both dangerous and exciting...
...example, there was a 5,000-word report from Bill Howland, our Atlanta correspondent, telling all about General Patton's colorful days at Fort Benning. (This was dated October 28, 1941 and filed away for future use. Another long report was filed nearly a year ago by correspondent Wilmott Ragsdale, on how General Patton was whipping our new desert warfare battalions into shape in the California desert...
Also in mid-Atlantic now are Wilmott Ragsdale, England-bound for a hitch in our London office after a year on the Army & Navy staff; and Mary Welsh, who has spent the last six months writing Foreign News in this country, but is now on her way back to her regular post in England...
December 7 Begins: Washington wire from Wilmott Ragsdale at the State Department, 1 p.m.-Japanese envoys asked for an appointment with Hull. . . . The book ends, 202 pages later, with the scene of Congress declaring war: "There were no tears. . . . There was no prayerful silence. . . . It was just the American Congress, its neck bowed, its back arched, and itself buckled down to the job of giving 'blood, sweat and tears' in any volume necessary to defeat the most audacious attack of the aggressors...