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Shots To London Took: This is to certify that of and found to be in good physical and sound mental condition. He is not suffering from any contagious, chronic or incurable disease of a pernicious character. He is also free from Trachoma, and was vaccinated against smallpox on the type of reaction being .
Shots, against this, that and the other disease, are a matter of such personal concern, or the insouciant lack of it, that it is difficult to give advice that will fit every case. Some worried givers of printed advice make suggestions that would stop me in my tracks if I were a first-timer considering the idea of a trip abroad. An occasional alarmist has been known to propose no less than five different shots as being advisable, shots to immunize you against smallpox, lockjaw, cholera, typhus and typhoid. The whole job, such counsel points out, calls for ten services from your doctor, most of the shots to be repeated a second or third time at intervals of 7 to 30 days.Considerably more difficult to play are shots from the rough, the area bordering the fairway. But the least desirable places for golf shots are the hazards. These include artificially built barriers, such as sand traps (bunkers) and streams and ponds.
The first operational shots to London took lace on Sept. 8, 1944. The first rocket fell at :43 P.M.; the second, 16 seconds later. The fir-ig was done from the Netherlands. The rocket self had been renamed V-2 (for Vergeltungs-'affe-zwei—Vengeance Weapon No. 2) by the rerman Ministry of Propaganda. (The V-l was ot a rocket, but the so-called flying bomb, a nail, pilotless airplane with a pulsejet engine for repulsion.) The operational range of the V-2 as 190 miles. The last rocket fired against London fell at 4:45 P.M. on March 27, 1945. Of more than 1,300 rockets fired, 1,115 reached England; casualties amounted to 2,724 persons killed and 6,467 seriously injured. |
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