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Bombs & Scrap Iron. At most plants, the experts found that the bombs which had been dropped were too light for maximum destruction. Incendiaries were sprinkled only sparingly on the inviting wreckage of fuel dumps. So many bombs were duds that one bomber in six which fought its way from England to Germany and back actually delivered nothing more devastating than a load of scrap iron...
...marked B-29s competed for the honor of dropping the fourth atomic bomb. Their target runs were secret, lest sharp-eyed newsmen guess too much. Not so secret was the test flight of an ancient, radio-controlled B17. Guided by radio impulses from a jeep, the creaking, beaten-up bomber struggled into the air. Then a "mother plane" took its controls by radio, circled it round the field. Riding with its two hands-off pilots were two volunteers: a male and a female correspondent. The landing was rough, close to a crackup, but the Air Forces considered the test successful...
...Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Trovers Harris (ret.), former head of the R.A.F. Bomber Command, arrived in Manhattan, with fetchingly beautiful Lady Harris and small daughter, to visit friends ("fast, furiously, and well"), get one more decoration in Washington, and then move on to retirement in South Africa. Frayed tweed topcoat, mangled green felt hat, shocking-pink mustache...
...Roosevelt's death, Mussolini's, Hitler's, Germany's surrender, UNO's birth, Labor's victory in England, the bomber crash into the Empire State Building, the Potsdam Declaration, the atomic bomb, Japan's surrender, the war-crimes trial, the U.A.W. strike. Hearst's I.N.S. "best ten" list added the Pearl Harbor inquiry...
...Last month a converted British Lancaster bomber made a survey flight from London to Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Peru. The British plan a regular commercial service on that route...