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...Lancaster on the first raid was New York Timesman James MacDonald, winner of a coin toss that made him representative of the U.S. press. Carefully he noted that the big bomber whipped over the camouflaged decoys on the approach to the Reich's capital and planted its bombs in the midst of fires set by others ahead of it. When his bomber was 60 miles away on the trip home he could still see the red flare of Berlin's fires...
...raid Berlin's great antiaircraft defenses thundered in the night. But strong as they still were, they had apparently been reduced in strength to beef up the defenses of the Ruhr. Also it seemed that the gunners were not alertly on the job. Britain lost only one bomber. When the R.A.F. crews gathered, teacups in hand, for their interrogations back home, they agreed that few night fighters had come up to meet them...
...prevent the disabling "blackout" of a dive-bomber pilot at the moment he pulls out of a dive, Frederick P. Dillon of Los Angeles has invented a pilot's seat which automatically stretches the pilot out supine at the bottom of his dive. This posture change keeps the pilot's blood supply from being pulled away from his brain at dive's end. At the same time the mechanism relieves the pilot of control, turning the plane over to an automatic gyroscopic instrument. When the plane has leveled off, the pilot is returned to a sitting position...
...Joseph M. Gordon, fluorescent and luminescent products consultant of New York, has made the use of black light for night flying,† now usually confined to instrument-panel illumination, easily practical for all members of a bomber's crew...
...landed with the first Marine contingents to hit the Solomons. For seven weeks, until he was relieved, he lived with the Marines, became as tough and wiry as any. Jap snipers shot at him. Jap pilots strafed and bombed him. On his way out of the islands by bomber he started to write about it all. In Honolulu he finished his book...