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...models, thinks up nicknames for his two children (currently called Punch & Judy), whirls visitors through the shipyards in a maroon Lincoln. But what he enjoys most is contemplating Consolidated's whopping backlog of $480,261,000 (including seven types of ships and 4-to-5-in. naval ack-ack guns) and thinking up tricks to chew that backlog up faster...
...test was set up by Colonel Malcolm C. Grow, flight surgeon who concluded months ago that many a wound from ack-ack splinters and nearly spent bullets could be prevented by light steel on head and body...
...impressive, but in the long run the bombings got the Italians' backs up, intensified their hatred of the British. Lately Italy has been hit principally in the south, by American bombers from North Africa, and the effects have been similiar: more demands on Hitler for defensive fighters and ack-ack, considerable damage, and growing hatred of Americans, which may well mean a stiffer resistance to invasion...
...same day another coastal town was hit. England's Atlantic City, Brighton, had nearly a hundred raids. The Germans choose misty days and they swoop out of the clouds, sometimes with their engines switched off, spray the town with bullets, dump their bombs and are off before the ack-ack is effective...
...Island, twelve miles off the southeast tip of China, 1,500 miles southwest of Japan proper. Full-bosomed, oversized nudes, painted on the Liberators' noses by the crews, leered down at the Hainan airdrome, barracks, warehouses and oil-storage tanks where the bombs fell. No defending fighters appeared, ack-ack was weak and inaccurate, and the bombers had suffered no losses when they turned homeward from the blazing targets...