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...American air observer (identity withheld) in Britain recently visited a station of the Fighter Command on a quiet day and was invited to take a turn over the field in a Spitfire. With R. A. F. escort, the American went aloft, was churning peacefully over the countryside when a group of uninvited Messerschmitts dropped in for a dog fight. The R. A. F. flew off to fight. In the interests of neutrality, the lone American streaked for the field, was gleefully pursued by a pot-hunting Nazi. When the bullets began to zip past him, the American abandoned neutrality, flipped...
...stoker passing cordite up to one of the Britisher's for'ard guns was puzzled by sudden silence above him. He went aloft to see what was the trouble. He found ". . . most of the men dead. . . . About 20 men were being attended to by the doctor. A shell came over and I guess it finished them." The third salvo had carried away another forward gun. Another powder monkey (in peacetime a London cabby) later recalled how after half an hour, "my gun was hit directly. . . . There was a terrible sound and the gun and its whole crew were...
Fighter aircraft raced aloft to shoot down a Nazi reconnaissance plane that appeared overhead as a target spotter. In an hour and 20 minutes the Germans sent over 108 shells, but without "eyes" their shooting grew ragged and not one ship...
...world will once again hear the tramp of the dauntless Roman Legions. The flashing eagles have been raised aloft to restore to Italy her historic position in the world...
Reciprocal tons of Allied bombs whistled down on Germany and most Allied air pilots were aloft daily for as long as men & machines could endure. Reported killed in an accident during the week was Flying Officer Edgar James ("Cobber Kain "D. F. C., 22, of New Zealand. Prime Allied targets included oil depots at Hamburg and Kiel, factories in the Ruhr. A French naval formation for the first time let go explosives instead of literature near Berlin, in retaliation for the hundreds killed & wounded around Paris...