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Triphammers' Trips. After the Lübeck and Rostock raids the four-motored bombers swung into Norway, turned up with 75 heavy bombers over Trondheim, where the Tirpitz and Prinz Eugen are holed up. Under a bright bomber's moon, the raiders went after another target -a big submarine base just completed after two years of work by Danish vassal labor. Few days later the returns came in from agents in Sweden: two years had been wasted. The base was reported a ruin...
...From Newfoundland and Labrador planes fly a constant anti-submarine patrol. The Labrador fields, although north of the Army's bases in Newfoundland, are better off for all-year flying than those in Newfoundland. Reason: Newfoundland's persistent, plaguing fogs, which have often interrupted but never halted bomber deliveries to Britain. Even Greenland's vast, inland icecap is not the hazard which most people suppose it to be. Says the U.S. Army Air Corps Arctic Manual (published in 1940): ". . . Greenland is practically one continuous and nearly perfect landing field for planes equipped with skis. Most...
...Three minutes are allotted to each fitting. In Detroit an ex-schoolmarm holds valve tappets for Wright engines to the light, and feels each one with her fingers. There must be no tiny scratch or rough spot-to wreck a plane, cost a life. In Ford's great bomber hatchery at Willow Run a woman flyer (Mary Elizabeth Von Mach) inspects motors for the big B-24s. In San Diego a young war widow strings numbered wires of an electrical subassembly, attaching the end of each to its proper terminal. In Dallas a bridge champion's wife assembles...
Women are no problem in such places as the AC Spark Plug in Flint, which has employed women for years, easily converted men & women alike to machine-gun making. Briggs Mfg. Co. in Detroit simply took women from the upholstering department, taught them to put fabric on bomber wings and rivet framework...
...March aircraft production was 70% greater than the month preceding Pearl Harbor: bomber output jumped 200%; aircraft engines 48%. April figures are even higher...