Morale by Murray Leinster — Read

". It is a point worth noticing, by any student of / strategy, that while the Wabbly in working solely for / effectiveness in lowering civilian morale worked upon / sound principles, yet the destruction of the Wabbly by / Sergeant Walpole and Flight Cadet Ryerson immediately / repaired all the damage done. Had it worked toward more / direct military aims, its work would have survived it. / It remains a pretty question for the student, whether / the Enemy Command, with the information it possessed, / made the soundest strategic use of its unparalleled / weapon. But on the whole, the raid of the Wabbly / remains the most startling single strategic operation / of the war, if only because of its tremendous effect / upon civilian morale. " (_Strategic Lessons of the / War of 1941-43._ -- U. S. War College. Pp. 94-96.)

A major-general climbed out of a staff gyrocar and waded through mud for half a mile, after which he, in person, waked two sleeping men. They were sprawled out in the puddle of rain which had gathered in a torn-away tread from the Wabbly. They waked with extreme reluctance, and then yawned even in the act of saluting in a military manner.