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...Concept. That same night, the Army also gave the nation a glimpse of some new weapons. Speaking in guarded phrases during a radio interview, Army Chief of Staff Joe Collins let it be known that his antiaircraft artillerymen had already developed a new AA rocket which could knock down bombers flying at 60,000 feet-well above the present bomber ceiling-and were working on another guided missile which promised to be even more accurate at even higher altitudes. General Collins also thought that he would soon have a new weapon of "radical design" which might "change the whole concept...
...CASE OF THE NAVY PRIVATEER. Dispatched: a carefully weighed charge that the missing four-engined Navy patrol bomber, because of the known facts of its flight plans and its slow speed, could not have been over Russia's Baltic territory when the Russians said it was. Hence it must have been shot down or crippled...
...Paul Bunyan, who could kill a pond-ful of bullfrogs with a single shout. Big, barrel-chested, ramrod-stiff Jimmy Duncan came close to outshouting them both. The legend was that once when Jimmy told a lagging ground crew to "pick up those feet," the pilot of a bomber approaching the airdrome hastily retracted his landing gear. On an occasion when Jimmy was drilling a squad of recruits in a Wellington park, another squad half a mile away had to quit because they couldn't hear the commands of their drill sergeant, a noncom of impressive voice...
Last week the pilots could listen to their motors all they liked. There was no sound to break the stillness of the clear New Zealand air but the occasional backfire of a twin-engined bomber, the clap of autumn thunder or the scream of a siren. Jimmy Duncan, 59, had retired. There was no truth whatever, he roared in parting, in the story that he had been offered a job as a one-man public-address system. "Perhaps," said Jimmy, reflectively, "I'll raise cabbages...
Night and cold closed down over Euclid. Hour after hour Coast Guard boats methodically zigzagged over the area, sweeping the water with searchlights. A cold front came out of the west bringing a sharp, high wind with it. At daybreak a B-17 bomber, Air National Guard planes, two Navy PBYs and private planes joined the hunt for the adventurers. At 7 a.m., the B-17 spotted Dickie Bauer's raft 25 miles from Euclid, near Fairport Harbor. The bomber lost it in the morning haze and tumbling waves, but 2½ hours later spotted it again...