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Sicily is really formidable. It has a naval base at Messina which can take vessels up to heavy cruisers, and submarine bases at Palermo, Augusta, Syracuse. It has been a Stuka base since 1941, with great dive-bomber fields at Catania on the east and Comiso on the southeast. It now has between 15 and 20 well dispersed air establishments, all good, all heavily fortified...
Brown had undertaken the tour at his own expense, in part as a memorial to his son, Captain Don Brown, killed in a California bomber crash last October; he could feel the satisfaction of a job well done...
First director of the U.S. glider program was Major Lewin B. Barringer, who was lost in a bomber over the Caribbean last January. Last week the Army called in a civilian expert, Richard C. du Pont (of the Delaware Du Ponts), pioneer sailplane pilot, to take full charge of glider production and training...
...struggle against the international disease of fascism, a goodly proportion of our national Congress as well as of the American people seem to have forgotten the fact which Pearl Harbor should have made inescapable and unforgettable--no point on the globe is more than sixty hours distant by bomber; no nation is safe amidst international anarchy. But the isolationists do not, or choose not to, agree...
...sham battle with deafening noise-an improvised grenade (a potato stuffed with gunpowder) hit the President's car; at Maxwell Field, Ala. the signals got crossed: soldiers puffed 15 times over the obstacle course before a halt was called. After the Army camps came the Douglas bomber plant at Tulsa...