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Bagdad to Teheran. Back again in "the office" as the bomber flew northeast over the Persian mountains from Bagdad to Teheran, Churchill saw jagged peaks reaching up hungrily in the clear air. "Say, aren't we flying rather close?" he asked. Vanderkloot answered: "About a thousand feet." "Those peaks," said Churchill, "would look better from higher up." The bomber picked up another thousand feet...
...Churchill's bomber and two others carrying 14 British and six American military and diplomatic bigshots droned over Moscow, a full escort of fighters swarmed around them. At the airport Churchill stood at attention for God Save the King, The Star-Spangled Banner and The Internationale...
...individualist again that during his last few hours in Moscow Churchill called for another appointment with Stalin. He was closeted with the Premier from 9 p.m. until 2:30 a.m. A few hours later, in a drizzling rain, he climbed back into his bomber...
...black flies, horse flies, deer flies, the tiny "no-see-ums" that announce themselves only by a sting, and the mosquitoes. ("Why, over at Watson Lake, a mosquito landed on the airport and they put 85 gallons of gas into it before they realized it wasn't a bomber.") The insects made sweating, swollen hands look like grey fur. The engineers slapped and cursed till they got head nets and gloves...
Tony Pastula, the 24-year-old bomber, came of a Polish family in Youngstown, Ohio. He had a horror of being buried at sea on a rough day. "Perhaps, also," says Dixon, "he had a # Seamen Pastula, Dixon, Aldrich. horror of being eaten [by his mates]." Tony was the thinnest and thought he might be the first to die. Nevertheless, he agreed with the other two that "the survivors should eat the heart, liver and other such organs" of whichever one went first. Says Dixon: "Today I don't believe that any of us had a real intention...