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Clark Gable, who wanted to be an aerial gunner when he joined the Army last August, got his wish: he graduated from the Army Air Forces Gunnery School at Florida's Tyndall Field, was assigned to Fort George Wright, Wash., where bomber crews for combat duty are trained...
...Land-based air power, as exemplified by the big bomber doing high-altitude horizontal bombing, is ineffective against a fleet equipped with seagoing air power...
Just above masthead height, the bomber headed for a fat freighter at the end of the moonbeam, rode up close with bomb doors open, flipped a pair of bombs. From that low altitude the bombs did not have time to point down. Instead they struck the water, still with more forward than downward momentum, skittered across the waves like a stone skipped by a small boy, struck the side of the freighter, settled in the water. The target belched two livid bursts of flame and a tall column of water licked at the Fortress' high tail as it thundered...
...story is one of an R.A.F. bomber crew forced down in Holland after a routine raid. Their escape to England is made possibly by the help of a well-organized Dutch underground. Googie Withers gives a fine interpretation of the quiet, unassuming Dutch girl who uses the confidence of Nazi masters to good advantage...
Half an hour later 40 torpedo planes and dive-bombers swooped in. Only one plane got through, a torpedo bomber. It was just taking the attitude for its drop when shells clipped its wings. It flipped up and shot the torpedo high in the air, right across the fantail and into the sea on the opposite side of the stern...