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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students in their 30s. Unlike the others, it included a group of delegates with a dramatic record in action. Among them: Chinese Cinemactress Yung Wang, who escaped the Japs at Hong Kong by feigning feeblemindedness; Wing Commander Scott Maiden, who shot down a Nazi bomber at Dieppe; Lieut. Johannes Woltjer, veteran fighter in Holland and The Netherlands East Indies. Above all, there was blushing Liudmila Pavlichenko, 26-year-old Soviet sniperess (in field uniform and boots), whose rifle has ticked off 309 Nazis (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Small Seed | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

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