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...Twentieth Bomber Command, based in western China, marked the day by blasting an aircraft factory at Mukden and the port of Dairen, and shooting down 26 Jap fighters - a record for B-29 missions...
Tokyo Rose, slangy, honey-voiced Japanese radio propagandist, down to her last half-dozen badly scratched, pre-Pearl Harbor phonograph records, evoked the aid of the Miami Rod & Reel Club, which appropriated $500 to supply her with fresh discs-through neutral channels "or by bomber over Tokyo...
...Returning from Paramushiro, the pilot of a twin-engined Navy Ventura bomber found that flak had holed the hydraulic-pressure system; there was not enough fluid left to lower the landing flaps. A machinist's mate used the crew's hoard of orange juice and coffee to refill the hydraulic reservoir. It worked...
Major General Claire Chennault, hawk-eyed chief of the Fourteenth Air Force in China, publicly greeted Hollywoodians Jinx Falkenburg and Pat O'Brien, members of a U.S.O. troupe whose performance moved 20th Bomber Command enlisted men-hitherto highly critical of China-Burma-India theater performers- to present them with a commendatory scroll...
Died. Carl A. Cover, 51, lean, weather-beaten, super-efficient Bell Aircraft Corp. vice president, onetime crack test pilot of nearly all Douglas aircraft (e.g., DC-3 transport, A20 attack "Havoc" bomber, etc.); and Max Stupar, 59, Austrian-born industrial-aviation planner; in an airplane crash, while flying a twin-engined cargo plane from Marietta, Ga. to Buffalo, N.Y.; near Wright Field, Dayton...