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...TIME [Feb. 9] ... it was stated that I refused to allow Mr. Larry Allen, Associated Press Correspondent with the British Mediterranean Fleet, permission to ride on an American bomber in which I traveled from Cairo to the U.S. on the grounds that there was no room...
...Bullitt & Bomber...
...never had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Allen until I reached Accra on the Gold Coast of Africa. . . . Mr. Allen, furthermore, did not ask me for permission to ride in the plane. He addressed himself to General E. E. Adler in charge of the U.S. Bomber Ferry Command Service. ... I did not have any jurisdiction whatsoever over this plane. I was merely a passenger...
Fortunately for Mr. Allen, necessary repairs to the bomber caused a 24-hour stayover at Accra and he was able to catch up with us traveling by regular Pan American service. It was at Accra that Mr. Allen asked permission to ride to Washington of Colonel Truesdale, of the U.S. Army Corps, who was in command of our plane. Colonel Truesdale wanted to take Mr. Allen but hesitated to do so without authority. He asked my view in the matter and I told him that since there was room in the plane (we had discharged three U.S. Army officers...
...coastal towns would be bad enough, but Canadians, remembering Pearl Harbor, thought also of Dutch Harbor. If the Japanese hoped to protect themselves from the wrath to come, they would have to neutralize Alaska, from which the Aleutian Islands stretch west and south toward Russian air bases, a short bomber hop from Tokyo...