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...except his flying, and he wanted very little except to be fit and right for that. When he got leave he would got to London and his mother would ask Paddy's girl over from next-door-but-one, and if his kid brother got leave from the Bomber Command at the same time they would have a real party. He scarcely ever took a drink and did not smoke much...
...Marines upheld the honor of the Corps. Easygoing, hands.ome Major Loften R. Henderson stuck to his flaming bomber, crashed on a carrier deck. Captain Richard E. Fleming, hit by anti-aircraft fire, went on to drop his bombs, flew to his death...
...Japs. The presence of troop transports since then indicate that the Japanese have been digging in on those craggy isles astride one main sea route between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Kiska alone gave Japan a harbor, a potential submarine base, enough flat terrain for an air base within bomber range of Dutch Harbor and other Alaskan bases...
...Lush. No place can be taken as typical in England-it is all too new -but here is a firsthand picture of a Bomber Command unit. Quarters are in a hundreds -of -years -old. many-roomed, thick, crenelated-walled home and on the large, lush grounds of a big estate occupied since 1939 by the R.A.F. Privates are encamped in their own U.S. wooden-floored tents for the summer, officers in the mansion's outsize, fireplaced, tinted-plaster bedrooms complete with stone washbasins and large, white crockery commodes. Officers who tended to laugh at the British Army...
...station is under the direct command of energetic Bomber Chief General Ira Eaker. Reveille is sounded at 7 o'clock by Bugler Thomas Pomparelli from New York, who is waked up by a $1.98 alarm clock. Working day is from 8:30 to 5:30, seven days a week, with duties being the "same as at home" except for unmentionable preparations for the future. An hour and a half is taken up with a choice of baseball, tennis, swimming, volley ball, outdoor badminton and even croquet. Dinner is at 7, with few complaints, as Americans are on double British...