"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours"
From Our ArchivesWaiting for an Aleutian gale to blow itself out, a Navy gunner reads in the blister turret of a Catalina patrol bomber in November 1943.
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