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...flight to Egypt found Churchill in "the office" (control cabin) of the four-motored American B-24 bomber, chattering with Pilot William Vanderkloot of Sarasota, Fla., winner of the Order of the British Empire for his Ferry Command radio-beam installations on the North Atlantic, and with Co-Pilot Jack Ruggles of San Francisco, once-wounded, four-year veteran of the Chinese Air Force...
Last week the U.S. got another glimpse of suave Mr. Bullitt. A photograph from an Army operations headquarters "somewhere in England" (see cut) showed him walking with Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower, Commander of the A.E.F., and Brigadier General Ira Eaker, head of the U.S. bomber command, who this week personally led a force of Flying Fortresses in a raid on occupied France (see p. 26). Then he went to Ireland, conferred for an hour with Prime Minister Eamon de Valera...
...most part the job is being done well and rapidly, by men who have become close friends. Two of London's boon companions are Major General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, the U.S. air commander in Britain, and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris, chief of the R.A.F. Bomber Command. Their bonds: flying and poker. They and other officers play often, but they seldom finish a game. Spaatz and Harris usually forget the cards, fall to telling each other how they can beat Hitler from...
...Dragons. China's great, good friend, Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault, had said: "Today the Japanese bomber is the hunted, not the hunter." All that week there had been fresh signs that this was true. Winging over the lonely shores of the South China Sea, U.S. planes bombed Haiphong in Indo-China, the big invasion base where the Jap squatted, glaring at Yunnan Province and waiting for the end of the monsoons...
...rain drizzles through the bamboo bars on us. Major Del Bailey, flight leader, says: "I'll go up and look around. If it's clear I'll flash on one navigation light. . . ."I climb into the bomber with him. Above, we find a clearer spot in a squall and flash on one light. Up after us come the rest of the bombers and peashooters [fighters]. As dawn breaks we are off for Canton...