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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH The Men Behind the Gun A Ducky Truck Undercover Men Fix Planes Beneath Their Enemies Nose Even' under constant enemy bombardment, United States soldiers must rescue, salvage, repair, and restore wrecked airplanes. At the Greenville, South Carolina, Service Group Training Center, members of the U. S. Army Air Forces are taught how to do this dangerous work under ingenious camouflage. In picture at top a medical unit rescues an injured pilot from a crash simulated for training purposes. The U. S. armys new 214-to- am- n phibian truck is shown being loaded Looking like characters from a futuristic adventure strip, members at New Caledonia. It has been nickWhen loaded it of a gun crew stand ready at battle stations inside a turret aboard the named the Duck. 31,000-to- n British battleship, Malaya. Their weapon is a gun the waddles ashore and then rolls inBritish battleship, Repulse, land to wherever the supplies are same size as the guns aboard the 32,000-to- n needed. It eliminates bottlenecks in which was sunk on December 9, 1941, by the Japanese. landing supplies to forces attacking 15-in- ch enemy-hel- d TELEFACT m shores. Swedish Royalty NAZIS' FOOD RATIONS uuuuu uuu w mesa mg Cows add a realistic touch to the camouflage installations in the country scene at left. In the background is a parachute drying tent which appears as a silo from the air. Right: A doughboy in a sniper suit, camouflaged to blend into sylvan surroundings. In ores country this warrior would be totally invisible at a distance. LT GERMANY J sflg V NORWAY . . FRANCE CRffCE Eoch symbol represents 20 A 'St 5 jTuji0 tl Q ml T' of Germonys food ration Is There Anybody Home? o 0 King Gustav of Sweden (left), his son Crown Prince Gustav-Adolp- h (right) and his grandson, Gustav-Adolp- h Jr. (center), are pictured as Swedish military watched they planes during a military exposition recently. Girl Guards - Does this crazy quilt pattern hurt your eyes? It does the same to an enemy bombardier. This pattern screen covers a damaged bomber so that repairs can be made without disclosing it to the enemy. Almost every device known to camoufleurs has been em- ployed at the training center. WWywwww y.wyiw.v,w meriean soldiers, engaged in mPPmf njpersfTheugout has a into a Japanese dugout m that md and cold of tte bieais roof to keep out the bitter st ne a cemetery for the enemy. tured jhe end of Japanese Few wre.ca? or committed suicide. idai'enemy attack, early infinal estiance on Attu was marked by a ht jp which it has been a some of the Japs lorning. The resulting bathe was slaug 1 that 50 Japanese were kaled.f! ILniets to start the detonation k their hand grenades against above Cories anism, then held the grenades in a tent lives. The final attack occurred d . One American colonel of tte ac. ample which they fought off Japs for seY 0f an Alaskan sy of the Americans shooting wass around him. circle m was found with twelve dead Japs lying toAJ0sr0unded jy In top photo a repair shop building is disguised to appear as m Note wires at right leading into roof. Bottom: The haystack. These two girls were among the is covered by a screen. The farmhouse and silo in backcandidates taking tests to be fem- plane are will engineering installations . Tanks, jeeps end replace ground actually inine lifeguards which sum-me- r. this vessels also are beaches camouflaged to confuse the enemy. Even seagoing men on Chicago New York beaches also will ,war plants have been camouflaged. be decorated with girl guards. |