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includes rice cakes, hardboiled eggs, canned meat ami vcgctables,
canned pllleapple, cider, chocolate and \I'hi,ky.
It is important tn.rt captured enemy food be in-pcctcd
and approved by aU. S. nledlcd officer before our troops
cat it, In emergency cucumst.mccs when there is no \I'ay
to gct it impedcd, it is Il'cll to keep in milld that the
safest of all would be c.mucd foods, provided the can docs
not blllge, that tile CII} IS not badly rmted and that the contents
do not pcld any kind of qne,tionable odor.
Smoke. The follo\lillg advice \las issued h:' the 12th SS
Panzer Divisiou to its motor transport drivers:
"If your vehicle is attacked by an Alhed fightcr-bombcr,
drop a smoke bomb (Rauchkocrpcr or :\ebelhandgranate)
close to vour Ichicle but not too clmc or n)l]r I'clliclc will
catch fir~. Th is will make the pilot of th~ fighter-bomber
think he has hit his target, and he usuull', shears off,
"Never drop smoke bombs before the first burst of fire
from the plane, or the pilot will notice the trick.
"In the future el'Cry vehicle is to be equipped with two
smoke bombs."
The Thirteenth. One U. S. squadron in the South Pacific has
J/ad its J);/,e :ltt/cked hv the cncmv at file m inutcx to midnight
on the 13th of tJ~e month f
standard evasive maneuver. Recent specific comments from
CBI say th.rt when the Oscar IS eba,ed in level flight bclo«:
5,000 feet. instead of flIpping .u«! pldling np in a steep
climb, it wil l pmh straight clown and make .m abrupt pullup
close to the ground. Pilots of the o.,e:lr 1 .mcl J I. as ,\'(:11
as a fell' l Iamp pilots. have attempted reguLnh- to brenk off
comb.rt hy diling down and out at fnll throttle. f rcqucut ly
without regard to altitude.
Camouflage. The Germans attemptecl to m.rl«: their airfield
at Conucillcs en Vcxin in Fr.mcc look from the air like a
small town. lIangars and shops were covcrcc] with sacking
and designed to resemhle houses or small huildings. 1"alse
\I'indo\l's were painted on the xiclc-, .md g:lrelens were
"planted" outside.
But as an Allied advance pressed close. the Cennans
deserted their playhouse. They set fire to three ~IE-l 09s,
four 1-'\'-190s and two JU-SSs hecause they could not Hv
them awav.
Jap Odds and Ends. Tokio Broadcl.st to the U. S.: "Not
onc of the 20,000 [up.mc«: residents of Duv.ro wil! leave the
i,.land of ~lineLlIlao. Their ardent desire to defend their
home island was at last granted when on i\ngmt I they
were ordered to offer their services as nulitarv employes."
[ap explanation to natives of a Pacific i,LlIld who wanted
to knnvv whv Allied airplanes were not heing shot clown:
Allied planes hale hccn armored on the nnderside with
rubber, from which Jap bullets bounce off.
Domei Ne\l's i\gcnc:': "ShOll'S for cnjovmcnt arc banned
in Tovk» theaters, and the subject matter ... \I ill he renovatcd
so as to contribute toward uplifting the people's
morale and increasing fighter strength."
'I'okvo Domestic Radio: "Admiral Shiro Takatsu. war
councillor, received a do/.en bottles of grape juice from the
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