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WINDSOR, Founder Next Month TTHE “bridge game” played by “Army engineers in Europe and on other fronts bas far mare vari= silons than the Culbertson variety ‘They use wood, rubber, sieel and lots of Yankee ingenuity to keep gue rien op the el of « re= treating foe. 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WINDSOR, Jr, Editor and Publisher February, 1945 Vol. 83, No. 2 IN THIS ISSUE Death From the Stratosphere- = - 1 The Bombsight That Thinks - - 7 Mile a Minute on Ice - - - 12 ‘The Battle That Won the Pacific - 17 The Car That Runs on Air - - - 29 Around the World in 2,000 Miles - 33 Shipyard Sign Talk 9° - - - - 40 ‘They Bring ’Em Out Alive = + + 44 Mapping the Navy’s Battleground - 50 The Latest in Color Photography - 60 War Wonders for You - > + + 65 ‘The Army's Navy to the Rescue - - 72 Lifting Father Knickerbocker’s Face 76 ComingDown - - - - - = = 82 Where-to-Buy-It Index—Page 8A The Art of Counter-Sniping (SOMEWHERE on the Western Front a U.S. Army ofi- cer speaks into a eld telephone: There’ Sersy up here siping at our men. Send one of our experis (2 {ake care of hist” The expert isa countersatiper picked {fom the ereamn of our tffemen, ‘He usually shoots only ig fore can 6 loc, ds a 900 yard, He dextcous with is ies tam exper of camo oe fend is eal in the face of danger. 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