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...broad-shouldered man with a photogenic grin stepped from a Navy bomber. Troops in red tunics and white helmets presented arms. A band played The Star-Spangled Banner. Four years ago the same man had visited Brazil as a private citizen. Now Colonel Frank Knox, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, came as a comrade in arms. He lunched with President Getulio Vargas, banqueted with Brazil's top fighting men, visited war plants and strategic airfields...
...Army's air arm, not primarily for mass raids. Its attack on Britain was a none-too-brilliant job of improvisation. Since then German aircraft production has kept abreast of the Army's needs, but it is doubtful if Germany has been able to develop the heavy-bomber production which Britain and the U.S. achieved only after prolonged travail. Nonetheless the British are preparing for the worst. (When Prime Minister Churchill boasted that British aircraft production exceeded German output, a British official plaintively observed: "How the hell does he know?") They have dug deep, well-equipped raid shelters...
...back income tax of $117,000 would be paid up-the latter a manifest impossibility, since he must pay heavy Treasury taxes on any new lump sums he now earned. Not many tears fell. Millions, had wanted to know whether the young Irish sharpshooter could cut down the great Bomber. Only a few of the more emotional sportswriters bled much in print, and up rose no wave of public indignation. The U.S. as a whole had learned another lesson: you cannot hold on to the peacetime pleasures, even under the name of Army Emergency Relief-which, incidentally, didn...
...Haugland flipped a coin with an Australian correspondent for a seat on an outgoing U.S. Army bomber. The A.P. man won. The plane used up its gasoline bucking a tropical storm; Haugland and the crew bailed out at 13,000 feet. Eight days later two of the crew reached Port Moresby. Within 20 days all but Haugland and the navigator had straggled...
Month ago I.N.S.'s Jack Singer got aboard a torpedo plane and watched U.S. Navy flyers set the Jap carrier Ryuzyo afire off the Solomon Islands. His own bomber slipped a torpedo into the ship from less than 800 yards, survived some stubborn Jap Zeros, got home. Singer figured he was lucky to get back alive. But it made a swell combat story...