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...R.A.F. He was the famed "Dam Buster" (so dubbed by Winston Churchill after the spectacular Möhne and Eder dam-breaching raids); Britain's most decorated airman (the Victoria Cross, the Distinguished Flying Cross and bar, the Distinguished Service Order and bar); "the most experienced bomber pilot in the world...
Last week the Air Ministry sadly posted 26-year-old Guy Gibson as missing-ten weeks after he had failed to return from a mission as master bomber in a night attack on Rheydt, now in the path of the U.S.-British advance to the Rhineland...
...Valencia was no bomber, but the crew was willing. From a 40-gallon oil drum stuffed with 386 sticks of dynamite, parts of a sewing machine, a motorcar differential and two packets of incendiary bullets, they fashioned their bomb, eventually squeezed it into their crate...
Last week, as Worcester, Mass, celebrated "All-British Week," its citizens got a sample of this venerable sheet. The Worcester, Mass. Telegram reprinted a specially-edited front page of the English paper, flown to the U.S. by bomber. For the occasion, as a supreme hands-across-the-sea gesture, Berrow's abandoned a 254-year-old custom, cleared the classified ads off its front page, substituted news...
...overwritten love scenes, though these are played with unusual heart and simplicity by Van Johnson (as Lieut. Ted Lawson) and a talented, sensitive newcomer, Celia Thaxter (as Mrs. Lawson). It is best in its flying scenes-above all in an ambitious sequence which purports to take a low-flying bomber all the way from the deck of the Hornet to the roofs of Tokyo...