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...pictured on p. 29 of your May 17 issue will not, as captioned, "Shuttle Steel to Kiska" or anywhere else. ... Its lack of armament and the odd-shaped "holes" in the hood door and fuselage stamp it unmistakably as something other than the P-38 interceptor pursuit or fighter bomber...
...Jimmy Thach has had enough of the beach for a while. He wants to get out to battle, update tactics once again, because he thinks that in battle experience counts for more than youth. (Flatley is 36, O'Hare 28. the Navy's famed dive-bomber Gus Widhelm...
...Arthur was 49, and just about to turn 50 (in April), when he got the chance for which he had been schooling himself all his adult life. In early 1942 Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal (a year younger) offered Harris the R.A.F. Bomber Command. On Feb. 25, at a secluded headquarters somewhere near London, he took command. Just six days later, on March 3, the Germans learned that the R.A.F. also had a new bombing policy...
When Sir Arthur took command, the R.A.F. was gradually replacing its two-engined bombers with longer range, higher load, four-engined Halifaxes, Stirlings, Lancasters. The effective loads of these planes were often exaggerated (the Lancaster, for instance, usually hauls about four tons instead of its theoretical eight), but they added mightily to the Bomber Command's power. Recently the Air Ministry released the first picture of a Halifax bomb bay, "bombed up" with one heavy, several smaller high-explosive bombs, and incendiaries...
Fresh proof of their usefulness came from Allied Headquarters last week with the announcement that Staff Sergeant Grady Gaston, of Frisco City,Ala. was recovering after wandering in the wild bush country for 111 days. Gaston was one of the crewmen who bailed out of a U.S. Liberator bomber in a blinding storm on Dec. 1. Three officers with him died in the jungle ; Gaston was saved when a native found him on March...