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...Mission. From the moment that a transatlantic bomber deposited the President's messengers in Britain, their doings had the stamp of some great purpose. They conferred and dined at No. 10; they weekended with Winston Churchill in the country, where the cherry blossoms were coming out and spring green touched the trees; and the King & Queen had Sunday lunch with the visitors. Between frequent rests abed, frail Mr. Hopkins conferred with Lease-Lender W. Averell Harriman and the ministers-who counsel Churchill on Britain's policies and potentials. General Marshall passed many hours with keen, brisk General...
Major Grizodubova said last week that the squadrons of women bomber and fighter pilots and air crews were growing by scores, that many were already taking part in operational flights. Some go out alone in Hurricanes, some even take bombers out at night. Some women have flown 1,000 hours. "One friend of mine, Vera Lomako," said Grizodubova, "who has shot down one Nazi plane, was flying a month before the birth of her daughter and soon afterward she shot down another plane. ... I know girls so quiet and apparently timid that they blush when spoken to, yet they pilot...
Even to such hard-boiled dreamers as the aviation engineers, this prediction was a jolt. The world's two biggest planes -the Army's much-touted Douglas Big bomber and Martin's own flying boat Mars-both tip the scales at 140,000 Ib. Any plane two or three times this size would be an almost incredible weapon. As a bomber it could fly from the U.S. to Berlin with 75-125 tons of bombs tucked in its belly, still have plenty of fuel for the return trip. As a transport it could tote 125 fully equipped...
...Well, we were short of pilots and we had a dive-bomber we had to abandon to Jap strafers. So we told this Dutch pilot he could have it. Mind you, he had never flown one before. But the Dutchman's face lit up like the South Seas' full moon. He took only 20 minutes' instructions, and then said he was ready to have the gasoline tanks and bomb bays filled because it was getting late and he had a date at dawn with some Jap transports. He took off to the north, leaving only an exhaust...
...Americans brought as many Dutch pilots as they could out of Java. One pilot loaded 35 men, Americans and Dutchmen, into his four-motored bomber and took off at the beach at 2 a.m. Says he: "Something besides engines lifted that plane off the ground that night." Most Dutch pilots have had four years of training and they can fly anything. You see them all over Australia, in small, morose, green uniformed groups. Most of them left everything they loved in Java. They ask in anguish: "When do we get something to fly?" One day last week I had lunch...