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All Roads May Lead to Target But Not So Every Map Maker

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Operation Field Trip, unit, Geography 35a, Professor Erwin Raisz Commanding, made a navigational fix to the faultless second last week for the rendezvous point of the motor transport deep in the wilds of Winchester. Officer and men were to establish contact from different directions. The course being Mapmaking, they couldn't miss.

But someone had blundered. Theirs not to reason why, the students deployed themselves as per instructions to the designated hill. But the sad story of too little and too late was told all over again: map-master Raisz had misread the map!

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