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Willkie left Cairo in a big, drab-painted B-24 bomber, transferred somewhere in Palestine to a Douglas DC-3, flew on to Ankara. There he talked with Turkey's jovial, troubled Premier Sükrü Saracoglu and cool Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu. The visitor left Turkey in full agreement with New York Times Correspondent Ray Brock's cable (approved by the Turkish Foreign Office): "Turkey is firmly anchored alongside the United Nations for the war's duration...
Excerpts from the diary of an American engineer who salvaged a $500,000 bomber forced down in the jungle near the headwaters of the Amazon...
...must be luck or the patronizing hand of an angel. Trail broke out under left wing of B-24 bomber. For the scouting planes that are checking on us we wrote a large three dots and one dash for victory and success...
...answer is that most thoughtful Americans want to see the small brass cannon of 1763 beside the giant bomber; the old horse-drawn cannon of the Revolution beside the motorized caisson; Washington's Delaware River dory beside the amphibian tank, and the flintlocks keeping company with the tommy guns. Blue-blooded Americans want to see these things preserved until necessity demands their sacrifice...
...large number of students in their 30s. Unlike the others, it included a group of delegates with a dramatic record in action. Among them: Chinese Cinemactress Yung Wang, who escaped the Japs at Hong Kong by feigning feeblemindedness; Wing Commander Scott Maiden, who shot down a Nazi bomber at Dieppe; Lieut. Johannes Woltjer, veteran fighter in Holland and The Netherlands East Indies. Above all, there was blushing Liudmila Pavlichenko, 26-year-old Soviet sniperess (in field uniform and boots), whose rifle has ticked off 309 Nazis (TIME, Sept...